Estonia summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace without permission Friday and stayed there for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said. It happened just over a week after NATO planes downed Russian drones over Poland and heightened fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over.

Estonia has been a member of NATO since 2004.

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Estonia has summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter jets entered its airspace without permission

The Foreign Ministry said the incursion on Friday lasted 12 minutes

This is the fifth time this year that Russia has violated Estonian airspace, but the Foreign Minister called this incident "unprecedentedly brazen"

The airspace violation comes just over a week after

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