On May 28, 1987, one of the most extraordinary incidents of the late Soviet era unfolded in the heart of Moscow. On Soviet Border Guards Day, when the country’s security system was expected to be especially alert, a small single-engine Cessna aircraft landed near Red Square. At the controls was not a spy, a military pilot, or a participant in a secret operation, but an 18-year-old West German amateur pilot named Mathias Rust.

Poland has announced the deployment of 5,000 soldiers to its border with Germany in response to what it calls illegal “pushbacks” of failed asylum seekers by German authorities.

Germany’s Eurofighter jets have been redeployed to Finland, where they practiced taking off and landing in short distances as far as 180 kilometers from the Russian border, News.Az reports citing the Bild newspaper.