Another provocation in the skies, 5 Russian planes near Denmark
Express newspaper
25/09/2025 18:12
Two Hungarian JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets, part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Unit, were scrambled from Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania after being alerted to the presence of five Russian fighter jets near Danish airspace.
According to a statement from NATO Air Command, the identified Russian aircraft were a Su-30, a Su-35 and three MiG-31s, which approached dangerously close to the Danish air border without prior notification and without a registered flight plan.
This incident comes just hours after US fighter jets took to the air to monitor four Russian military aircraft near Alaska.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed that two long-range strategic Tu-95 bombers and two Su-35 fighter jets were spotted within the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADAZ), an international airspace that serves for the early identification of any flight near the sovereign territory of the US and Canada.