NATO fighter jets shot down a drone over Lithuania, the Baltic state's president said today, in the latest security incident on the alliance's eastern flank during Russia's war with Ukraine.

VILNIUS, Sept 15 - An Italian NATO fighter jet shot down a drone over Lithuania shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning, the Lithuanian national crisis management centre said. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight, hitting a gas station and an oil refinery, according to local authorities and monitoring Telegram channels.

NATO fighter jets brought down a drone after it entered Lithuanian airspace overnight. The first such incident in Lithuania has sharpened concerns over security along NATO's eastern flank.

It comes a day after the US president criticised Ukraine for hitting diesel fuel refineries in Russia.

US President Donald Trump has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed not to target each other’s energy facilities, a day after he criticized Kyiv for hitting Russian oil refineries.

Russia has responded to US President Donald Trump’s push to curb Ukraine strikes on Moscow’s diesel-producing facilities. On Sunday, Trump called on Ukrainian president Volodymyr...

A NATO fighter jet downed an unidentified drone in Lithuania amid rising tensions over airspace violations related to the Ukraine conflict.