Russia has followed up its drone incursions into Poland and Romania with a major military exercise in neighbouring Belarus – a “display of firepower” that has “stirred unease in European capitals amid mounting regional tensions and fears that Moscow is probing Nato’s defences ”, said The Guardian .

It came less than a week after Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said that his country was at its “closest to open conflict since the Second World War”. Stoking tensions between the Kremlin and the Western military alliance even further, former Russian president Dimitry Medvedev warned that calls for the establishment of a no-fly zone in Ukraine and for allowing its allies to shoot down Russian drones “would mean only one thing – a Nato war with Russia ”.

Talk of a global confli

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