A Russian su-27 took off to intercept 2 aircraft military-air forces of the USA and Sweden from the Russian border, said the Department of information and mass communications of the Ministry of defence.

the incident happened on the first day of the week over the Baltic sea.

The pilot accompanied Them, preventing violations of the airspace of Russia with observance of all precautions.

It is noted that the flight of the Russian plane took place strictly in Accordance with international rules of using air space.

over the past period, the activity of foreign reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles at the borders of Russia and the Russian military facilities abroad has grown. They occasionally notice in the area of the Crimea and the Krasnodar region, the Baltic sea and Russian bases in the Syrian Arab Republic.

in 2018, units of radio-technical troops of HQs found and escorted more than 980 thousand aircraft. About three thousand of them - foreign military aircraft, of which more than 1000 - reconnaissance aircraft.



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