BRUSSELS: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) fighter jets intercepted a Russian spy plane over the Baltic Sea after it breached Estonian airspace, the alliance said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) in the latest of such incidents amid tensions with Moscow over Ukraine.
The Ilyushin IL-20 “intelligence collection aircraft,” which took off from the Russian Baltic coast enclave of Kaliningrad on Tuesday, was first intercepted by Danish F-16 jets when it approached Denmark, NATO said in a statement.
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