By Anthony Deutsch

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) -Russia appears to have been deterred by NATO’s firm response last month to incursions into Polish and Estonian airspace, but Moscow is expected to continue testing boundaries, the U.S. general serving as NATO’s top commander said on Tuesday.

Three Russian military jets violated Estonia’s airspace for 12 minutes on September 19. NATO scrambled fighters and escorted them out, and Washington vowed to “defend every inch of NATO territory.”

Nine days earlier, more than 20 Russian drones had entered Polish airspace. NATO jets shot some of them down, the first time an alliance member had fired on Russian targets since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Alexus Grynkewich, a U.S. Air Force general serving as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told Reu

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