The German Air Force said the Russian aircraft was flying without a flight plan and the transponder was off in the latest such incident.
Germany has scrambled fighter jets to intercept a Russian reconnaissance plane in the latest air incident between a NATO member and Moscow's air force.The German Air Force said that it responded to the detection of an Iluyushin Il-20 over international waters between the island of Rügen and Denmark's Bornholm.
As previously reported by Newsweek, NATO said its air policing units had conducted about 200 interceptions of Russian aircraft over the Baltic in 2023 and around 190 in the first nine months of this year.Russia's defense ministry has previously that the country's pilots 'regularly fly over the international waters of the Arctic, the North Atlantic, the Black and Baltic Seas, and the Pacific Ocean' and the flights are over international airspace.
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