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Escalating European Crisis | Sep. 25th/Oct 11th | Reports

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Neptune Energy Confirms One of the World’s Largest Lithium Resources:
  • Confirmed resources of 43 million tons of LCE
  • Neptune Energy Receives Third Exploration License for Lithium in Saxony-Anhalt
  • Second pilot test for lithium extraction in the Altmark Region producing battery grade lithium carbonate successfully completed; third pilot test started
Hanover. Neptune Energy is currently developing a lithium extraction project in the Altmark Region (Saxony-Anhalt). In August 2025, the company commissioned the international and independent valuation agency Sproule ERCE to determine the resource base for the project (CIM/NI43-101 standard). As a result, the experts defined resources of 43 million tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE). This means that one of the world’s largest project-based lithium resources is located in Northern Saxony-Anhalt.
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Europe just secured its Lithium Resources for the next many generations. Congrats Europe on your soon to be lithium independence!
 
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Washington offers Baykar to localize drone production in the US:
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Washington had asked Baykar to open production in the United States.

This was reported by the Van Postasi Gazetesi publication , citing a speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in New York.

As Turkiye Gazetesi notes , this request is consistent with recent analytical reports submitted to Congress, which portray Baykar's Bayraktar TB2 drones as a symbol of Turkey's regional deterrence.

Two reports submitted to the House of Representatives highlight Turkey's role in NATO, its strategic location in the Black Sea region, and the growth of its defense industry.
Turkish-Ukrainian defense cooperation is highlighted as a critical issue. Although the Ukrainian Baykar plant was targeted by a Russian attack in August, this has not weakened the strategic partnership between the two countries. On the contrary, according to the report, cooperation in areas such as unmanned aerial vehicles, engine technology and corvette production has deepened.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the most critical focus in US-Turkey relations is the sanctions imposed on the defense industry.
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The minister said the US should lift CAATSA sanctions on both the F-35 program and the engines of Turkey's national fighter jet, the KAAN. In particular, he said, the engine license for the KAAN fighter jet was suspended due to the US blockade.
The prototype of the promising KAAN fighter, previously known as the MMU (Milli Muharip Uçak) or TF-X, received the official name KAAN on May 1, 2023.
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Incidents so far (updated):

  • Russian helicopter incursion into Estonia (Sept 8)
  • Russian drone incursion into Poland (Sept 9)
    • Russian UAV encroachment on Slovakia
    • Russian UAV encroachment on Moldova
  • Russian drone incursion into Lithuania (Sept 10)
  • Russian drone incursion into Romania (Sept 13)
    • Russian UAV encroachment on Poland
  • Belarusian UAVs over Poland govt buildings (Sept 15)
  • 3 Russian MiG-31s enter Estonian airspace (Sept 19)
  • 2 Russian fighters buzz Poland oil platform Baltic Sea (Sept 19)
  • Russian fighter low pass over German Frigate Hamburg in Baltic Sea (Sept 19)
  • Russian fighter low pass over German Frigate Hamburg in Baltic Sea (Sept 20)
  • Russian UAV incursion over Copenhagen (Sept 23)
  • Russian UAV Incursion into Denmark (Sept 24)
  • 2 Russian TU-95 & 2 SU-35 breach Alaska AIDIZ (Sept 24)
  • 5 Russian fighters (SU-30, SU-35, and 3 MIG-31) approached Latvia (Sept 25) 🇱🇻
  • UAV's over sensitive military instillations in Denmark, including Karup Air Base (September 26)
  • UAV Incursion into North Germany (Sep 26)
  • UAVs over Vilnius Airport, Lithuania (Sept 26)
  • UAVs over Sweden's Karlskrona Naval base (Sept 26)
  • UAVs over Denmark military facilities (Sept 27)
  • UAVs over Norwegian Orland Airbase (Sept 27)
"Encroachment" means the drones were close to but did not violate the airspace.
 
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IN BRIEF: On the afternoon of Sunday, September 28, 2025, pilots of a Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 that landed at "Henri Coandă" (Otopeni) Airport in Bucharest reported the presence of a drone near the airport to air traffic controllers.
The Turkish Airlines plane landed safely on runway 08L at Otopeni Airport at 14:27 local time. However, an air traffic controller instructed the pilots of British Airways flight BA886 from London (UK) to Bucharest to maintain an altitude of 2,000 feet, abort the landing procedure, and fly toward the runway direction.
Subsequently, the British Airways plane and eight other aircraft, including one military plane, landed on runway 08R at Otopeni Airport, which is primarily used for takeoffs.
Forty minutes after the report from the Turkish Airlines pilots, landings resumed on runway 08L at the country’s busiest airport.
Additionally, information obtained by BoardingPass indicates that the drone was located outside the airport perimeter (between DN1 and Buftea) and not on any of the airport’s runways, as some online publications have reported.

NOTE: It was likely a small, commercially available drone, not a military one!
 
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