The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet was lifted into the sky over the Barents Sea after detecting an air target approaching from the state border.
It is stated that it is an aircraft belonging to the Northern Fleet air defense forces.
The crew of the Russian fighter jet identified an air target near the Russian border as an R-8A Poseidon base patrol aircraft of the Norwegian Air Force.
When the MiG-29 fighter approached, the foreign aircraft made a U-turn from the Russian state border, the violation of its borders was not allowed.
The Ministry of Defense emphasized that the flight of the Russian warplane was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for using the sky over neutral waters, without crossing the airways and dangerously approaching foreign aircraft.
On the same day, fighters of the Danish Air Force rose On the night of 14 August, he took to the skies to accompany two Russian aircraft over the North Sea.
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