NATO Ally Responds to US Air Force's Close Brush With Russian Jets

'Monitoring and control of Norwegian airspace is carried out by the Norwegian Armed Forces,' a spokesperson told Newsweek.

The arrival of U.S. Air Force strategic bombers in Romania for the first time, which prompted Russia's military to scramble fighter jets on Sunday, passed through Norwegian airspace, Oslo's armed forces have confirmed.Moscow's defense ministry said two of its fighter jets scrambled to intercept two U.S. B-52H bombers over the Barents Sea in the early hours of Sunday. The Barents Sea sits north of Norway and northwestern Russia.'As the Russian fighters approached, the U.S.

'Finnish Defense Minister, Antti Häkkänen, said in a post to X on Sunday that Helsinki had 'implemented cooperation with the strategic bombers of the United States in the territory of Finland.'Häkkänen described this as 'normal' activity taking place in a NATO member country and a 'demonstration of the basic pillar of common defense, deterrence and defense.

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