Police and army inspect damage to a house destroyed by debris from a shot down Russian drone in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland, on September 10, 2025. Wojtek Raswanski/AFP/Getty Images

NATO allies are divided over whether the alliance should make it a policy to shoot down Russian jets that violate NATO’s airspace , with some countries including the US, Poland and Baltic nations signaling that future violations should be met with force, while others, including Germany, urge more restraint.

The issue came to a head during an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council on Tuesday, which was called by Estonia after three Russian fighter jets violated Estonian airspace last week for 12 minutes.

Representatives from several countries, including Poland and Estonia, wanted t

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