VILNIUS - Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis warned that tolerating Russia's airspace violations on NATO's eastern flank could embolden Moscow to act the same way at other borders. Budrys spoke after Monday's UN Security Council meeting on the growing number of airspace violations on NATO's eastern flank. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski warned Russia at the UN General Assembly on Monday that any aircraft or missile entering his country's airspace would be shot down. That is why Russia must be told that such airspace violations come close to a military conflict, and it is in its own interest to avoid one," he added. In the wake of repeated eastern flank airspace violations, the Alliance announced the launch of the Eastern Sentry mission to reinforce regional defenses.