'If we need to confront planes operating in Nato airspace without permission, we will,' UK's Cooper warns, as she says Putin risking armed confrontation with Nato
UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper is up next.
She says Russia keeps “violating its most basic obligations under the UN Charter” with “escalating” attacks on Ukraine, and “reckless” acts of incursion into Polish, Romanian and Estonian airspace.
“These latest acts are dangerous and reckless.
At worst, they are a deliberate attempt to undermine the territorial integrity of sovereign nations and European security.
They risk miscalculation, they open the door to direct armed confrontation between Nato and Russia.”