President Trump said Tuesday that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter Western airspace.

“Yes, I do,” he said in response to a reporter’s question on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Trump was meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he engaged with the press about recent Russian incursions into Polish, Romanian and Estonian airspace. 3

Asked whether the US would back up NATO allies, the US president said it would “depend” on the circumstances.

Article 5 of the organization’s founding treaty allows any member state to call on the full alliance for military action against aggressors. It has only been invoked once, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the US.

On Friday, NATO intercepted three Russian MiG-31

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