The Italian Air Force intercepted Russian planes over the Baltic Sea and tension grows in Europe. "War is no longer a concept of the past, it is real," was the alarm raised by the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk.

Tusk's words are indicative of a growing general alarm on the continent about Vladimir Putin's true intentions regarding Ukraine and beyond. The war is not going as Kiev wants, which incessantly asks for Patriot, ammunition, missiles and planes to defend itself from the Russian advance.