Russia posts video of its fighter jets ‘intercepting US spy plane over the Baltic Sea’
THIS is the moment a Russian fighter aircraft intercepts an American plane in the latest dramatic high altitude confrontation over the Baltic.
“The crew of the Russian fighter approached at safe distance to the aircraft, identified it as a US reconnaissance aircraft RC-135,” it said in a statement. Russian and NATO forces have been engaged in a game of cat and mouse over the Baltic in which warplanes have sometimes flown within feet of each other.
The air patrols are aimed at bolstering the alliance’s air defence along its eastern flank and to intercept any aircraft which stray into NATO air space.
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