Finland and Sweden, NATO's newest member states, reported separate airspace violations by Russian military aircraft last week.
Sweden and Finland, NATO's newest members, reported separate airspace violations by Russian military planes in the past week amid a major alliance exercise in the region.The Swedish air force scrambled a JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft on the afternoon of June 14 after a Russian Su-24 tactical bomber entered restricted airspace off the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland, the country's armed forces said in a statement the following day.
It was the first confirmed violation of Finnish airspace by Russian aircraft since two MiG-31 fighter jets breached the boundary in August 2022. Helsinki joined NATO in April 2023.While Sweden shares a sea border with the Russian city of Kaliningrad, Finland has an 830-mile land border with Russia's northwest. It is unclear whether either government assessed the incidents to be deliberate or accidental.
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