Two German Air Force fighters took off urgently from a base in Schleswig-Holstein at the weekend as a Russian intelligence-gathering aircraft was spotted in the Baltic, according to the German News Agency.
The Russian Air Force aircraft was in international airspace over the island of Rugen. Fighter jets approached and escorted it until it moved away from Germany.
A Russian aircraft also violated Danish airspace, prompting the foreign ministry in Copenhagen to call the ambassador of the Russian Federation to protest.
Both Denmark and Sweden claim that a Russian Antonov AN-30 aircraft violated the airspace of both countries on Friday night. It was flying east of the Danish island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea, off the southeastern coast of Sweden.
In early March, four Russian fighters violated Swedish airspace.
The Russian military's invasion of Ukraine on February 24 prompted Sweden, as well as neighboring Finland, to radically change its stance on potential NATO membership. Both Scandinavian countries are now expected to join the military alliance this summer.
Source: protothema.gr
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