Today, NATO launched a new plan to improve its defenses along its eastern flank with Russia

after Russia's unprecedented incursion of drones into NATO member Poland earlier this week.

Also today, the Trump administration presented to Europe a new package of economic

punishments against Russia designed to be imposed by both the U.S. and Europe.

Nick Schaeffin's been following this all today and joins me now. So, Nick, let's start with NATO's new plan.

What did the alliance announce today?

It's called Eastern Century, and it's designed to extend from the far north up to the top of Finland,

all the way down to Bulgaria on the Black Sea.

The idea is to have more integrated air defense, better information sharing, and new assets.

France is sending transport planes, including one that landed in Poland tonight, as well as fighter jets.

Denmark and Germany will also send jets, and this will all be under the control of NATO.

And its top commander, American General Alexis Grinkovich, who spoke

today in Brussels.

The key to this is an entirely new defense design.

This is going to be a comprehensive and integrated approach.

And with additional resources, we'll be able to plug gaps in the line, we'll be able to concentrate

forces where we need to defend at a moment

of a particular threat, and we'll have much better communication across the entire eastern flank.

Now, a lot of this has existed before Omna, but Grinkovich acknowledged that NATO still

needs to learn lessons that they should learn from Ukraine, from the war in Ukraine, how Ukraine

and Russia are fighting,

especially trying to create a new way to shoot down relatively cheap drones with a new version

...