{"id":161359,"date":"2025-06-05T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161359\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:33:13","slug":"russian-reconnaissance-aircraft-flies-over-baltic-sea-german-jets-scrambled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161359\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian reconnaissance aircraft flies over Baltic Sea, German jets scrambled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two German Eurofighter jets were scrambled on Thursday 5 June due to the presence of a Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> German press agency <a href=\"https:\/\/dpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DPA<\/a>, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> The Russian Il-20 aircraft was flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea without transmitting identification signals or establishing communication, the German Bundeswehr stated.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In response, NATO dispatched fighter jets from the German Air Force stationed at Rostock-Laage Airbase.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the sixth such deployment by the German Air Force since the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions in the Baltic Sea region remain high due to repeated illegal reconnaissance attempts and suspected acts of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two German Eurofighter jets were scrambled on Thursday 5 June due to the presence of a Russian reconnaissance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,12165,1824,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-161359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-fighter-jets","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114633140673992536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}