— Since the treaty was first signed in 1949, Article 5 has been invoked only once, following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland will invoke Article 4 of the treaty, under which a nation can request a formal consultation within the alliance if it believes its security has been threatened. This would serve as a political precursor to Article 5 deliberations. Article 5 requires a consensus among NATO's 30 member states that the incident meets the threshold of an attack warranting collective action.
— It says some of these objects have been downed, marking the first time the Nato country has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
— The overnight Russian attack involved 415 drones, one ballistic and 42 cruise missiles, the Ukrainian air force said in its morning statement. Of them, 386 drones and 27 cruise missiles were intercepted, it says. "At least eight enemy UAVs crossed the Ukrainian state border flying in Poland's direction," the air force adds.
— Ukrainian prime minister sai the building's roof and upper floors were damaged and a fire ignited "due to an enemy attack". Ukraine's air force reported that a record number of drones and missiles were launched by Russia in the latest nightly attack — more than 800 in total. At least four people were killed in strikes across the country, including a baby and a young woman who died after a nine-storey residential building was hit in Kyiv's Svyatoshynsky district, officials said.
— French President Macron said Trump agreed to the implementation of new sanctions against Russia if Moscow fails to engage in a bilateral summit between Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
— Russian drone attacks and shelling killed three people and injured five others in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region. Two people were killed in Russian attacks on the Polohivskyi district, as Russian forces launched 578 attacks on 18 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region. Separate Russian attacks also killed one person in Kherson, one person in the Kyiv region and one person in Donetsk, local officials reported. A Ukrainian drone injured three people in the village of Proletarsky, in Russia's Belgorod region. Russian forces seized the Ukrainian settlement of Fedorivka in the Donetsk region. Ukrainian attacks over the past week on Russia killed 12 people and injured almost 100. Russia's Defence Ministry said that its forces shot down 158 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period.
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