Russian Il-20M reconnaissance plane ignored requests to make contact, in latest of what are seen as provocative acts by Kremlin

Russian Il-20M reconnaissance plane ignored requests to make contact, in latest of what are seen as provocative acts by Kremlin

Two German Eurofighter jets were scrambled on Sunday to intercept a Russian military aircraft above the Baltic Sea, as Estonia said it would call an emergency meeting of the UN security council after Russian planes violated its airspace.

Germany’s air force said the Russian Il-20M reconnaissance plane had switched off its transponders and ignored requests to make contact. The Eurofighters took off from the Rostock-Laage airbase to head off the aircraft as it flew in international airspace.

Tensions between Nato and Russia have been dramatically rising after a series of what European governments say are deliberate, provocative acts by the Kremlin. On Friday, three Russian MiG-31 fighters violated Estonian airspace in the Gulf of Finland. Moscow denies this.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      22 hours ago

      Oh wait lol

      Russia is already shooting down anything that enters their airspace (or trying to, mostly succeeding). As well as lots and lots of things which are outside their airspace including civilian airliners sometimes. It’s only in NATO-land that it’s this big crisis like “oh no oh no whatever shall we do.”

      • mgnome@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        21 hours ago

        They just recently got into big beef with Azerbaijan because they shot down Azerbaijani civilian airliner and instead of apologizing and offering compensations to victim’s families - they just got “wait did you expect flying in here?”.

        So yeah, not like any decisions now gonna change anything since their practice of being terrorists who shoot down civilian aircraft dates back to at least 2014.

    • dustycups@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      All the NATO reconnaissance aircraft that enter their airspace? I think they already do that, as best they can.

    • trslim@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      NATO jets arent the ones violating other countries airspaces, Im pretty sure they already have this line of thinking anyway. I mean they shoot down civilian airliners anyway.