Other events in Baltic States

NATO fighter-jets conducting the air-policing mission in the Baltic states were last week scrambled twice to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea, informs LETA/BNS.

On Thursday, NATO fighters intercepted one An-12 flying from the mainland Russia to the Russian Kaliningrad region, which was flying according to a pre-filed flight plan and kept radio contact with the regional air traffic control center but its onboard transponder was not switched on.

Later on that day, fighter-jets identified and escorted a Su-34 flying from Kaliningrad to mainland Russia. It did not have a flight and did not use onboard transponder but maintained radio communication with the regional air traffic control center. The NATO air-policing mission is conducted from Lithuania and Estonia.