A US F-16 fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone, taking out another NATO ally's aircraft over Syria

"A US F-16 fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone in Syria on Thursday.

The rare clash between two NATO members occurred after the drone was considered a threat to US forces in the area.The Pentagon's Press Secretary called it a "regrettable incident" and said US forces had cited self-defense in the shoot down." BusinessInsider

NATO admiral floats 'form of conscription' to face Russia war threat

"Western allies may need to enact “a form of conscription” to grow their militaries, a top NATO admiral suggested amid widening misgivings about Russia’s replacement of soldiers and equipment lost during the war in Ukraine.

“It is a societal problem to be solved by society,” Dutch Adm. Rob Bauer, who heads the NATO Military Committee, said during the Warsaw Security Forum, “and if you cannot find enough people that voluntarily want to join the armed forces, you have to most likely think about other means of getting the people — a form of conscription, mobilization, reservists — like in Finland, where there's still conscription.”
U.S. military recruiters have fallen short of their targets in recent years, in parallel to a war in Ukraine that has exposed severe shortfalls in the ability of Western companies to produce arms and ammunition at a scale needed to deter or fight wars against Russia or China. Those dynamics make for a dangerous combination, Western officials fear, as Russian President Vladimir Putin is racing to expand Russia’s military in response to its struggles during the war in Ukraine." WashingtonPost

Strike in Ukraine’s northeast Kharkiv region

"At least 49 people were killed in Ukraine’s

northeast Kharkiv region on Thursday in what
appeared to be one of the war’s deadliest missile strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, describing it as a “fully deliberate terrorist attack” by Russia." MS

One of Ukraine's biggest allies has run out of vital equipment to give it

"The UK, one of Ukraine's

biggest allies in the war, has run out of crucial equipment to donate, a senior officer told The Telegraph." BusinessInsider