The US-led NATO alliance must prepare for the possibility that Russia and China could launch wars in Europe and the Pacific simultaneously, with 2027 being a potential flashpoint year, a top military officer said.

"Putin's criminal war is getting closer to our borders," Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Wednesday.

NATO allies have developed a plan to neutralize the Kaliningrad region. Modern weaponry will allow it to be done faster than ever before, said General Christopher Donahue, Commander of the US Army in Europe and Africa and Commander of NATO's Land Forces,

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen said the UK is lacking in ammunition, training, people, logistics, and medical capacity.

Flight data showed how American and British reconnaissance aircraft flew from England toward Russia on Monday.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has repeatedly said that Moscow’s annual ammunition production capacity is four times greater than that of the western alliance. View on euronews

A member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has warned that the war between Russia and Ukraine is slowly making it's way closer to the borders of their nation.

Poland's scrambling of aircraft comes amid heightened tensions across the alliance's eastern flank over Russia's aggression. It follows another NATO member, Romania, announcing it would implement an Iron Dome defense system similar to that used by Israel.