FILE PHOTO: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk holds an extraordinary government meeting at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, with military and emergency services officials, following violations of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland, September 10, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/ File Photo

The UK is not the only Nato country patrolling the eastern flank - with missions also being coordinated alongside Denmark, France and Germany.

Germany said it scrambled air force fighter jets to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane flying unidentified over the Baltic Sea.Two German Air Force Eurofighter jets were joined by two Swedish Gripen jets to monitor and photograph Moscow’s IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft.

Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down.

Three Russian fighter jets violated Estonian airspace Friday in a move the Baltic nation called "unprecedentedly brazen" and that appears to be the latest test of NATO's defenses by the Kremlin's forces. NATO aircraft intercepted the jets, the military alliance's spokesperson Allison Hart said on X.

British fighter jets will fly air defence missions over Poland to counter aerial threats from Russia, including drones, as part of Nato’s Eastern Sentry mission,” the ministry said in a statement, add