Twice a day. Near NATO airspace was intercepted by Russian aircraft - the media

According to journalists, Russian aviation is intensively monitoring the Alliance vessels in the Baltic Sea, which leads to such incidents. On June 8 and 9, the UK Air Force found Russian planes near NATO airspace. For their interception, the Alliance fighter jets were sent. About it reports Miraage. It is noted that on the evening of June 8, British Air Force fighters based on Amari Air Base in Estonia were aimed at intercepting IL-20 and Su-27, flying near NATO and Sweden airspace.

Sweden Air Force joined the British. "The Russian planes did not meet international standards without contacting the relevant areas of flight information (RPI), but they remained in the international airspace," the newspaper writes. In the morning of June 9, the British pilots again had to intercept one An-12 and one An-72 moving south of mainland from mainland in the Kaliningrad region.

Later, two more TU-22m and two SU-30 were also flew south of the mainland Russia over the Gulf of Finnish and the Baltic Sea. "NATO is currently conducting naval operations in the Baltic Sea within the Baltop, and, as expected, Russian planes are watching the Allies' ships everywhere," the message reads. We will remind, on June 6 the media reported that Australia, the USA and Ukraine are negotiating on the possible supply of Kiev F/A-18 Hornet fighters.