A group of Montenegrin boxers was stopped from entering Moldova on February 14 as President Maia Sandu warned that what she called diversionists in Moscow's service were plotting to overthrow her pro-Western government.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on February 15 urged the alliance's 30 member countries to commit to spending at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense by a set date, as Russia’s war on Ukraine and other threats eat into military spending.
Authorities in Kyiv said on February 15 that the city's air-defense forces shot down "most" of what they said were six Russian balloons that appeared over the city and might have carried intelligence equipment or reflectors to interfere with the air-defense system of Ukraine.