Italian fighter jets intercept Russian jets over the Baltic. Tension in the skies after another night of bombs in Ukraine.

"War is no longer a concept of the past, it is real", is the alarm sounded by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The war is not going the way Kiev wants, which incessantly requests Patriot, ammunition, missiles and planes to defend itself from the Russian advance, according to the American think tank ISW. The bombing of Moscow with dozens of drones and missiles has "damaged thermal and hydroelectric power plants" in central and western Ukraine.