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NATO fighter jets shoot down a drone over Lithuania for the first time
NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that flew into airspace over Lithuania, a NATO member country in the Baltic region.
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CIA director's Moscow trip warned Russia off NATO and Iran, reports say
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secret trip to Moscow that had already been reported, but new reporting from US news outlets says what he actually told the Russians: don't attack NATO countries, especially the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and don't help Iran.
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Baltic States and Ukraine Push UN Council Toward Ceasefire Resolution as US Condemns Russian Strikes
At back-to-back UN Security Council sessions, the Baltic states and Ukraine pressed for a formal ceasefire resolution while the US condemned Russia's destruction of Ukrainian homes and heritage sites. The push highlights the gap between rhetorical unity and the veto that keeps any binding text out of reach.