{"id":441045,"date":"2025-09-21T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441045\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:51:18","slug":"russian-military-plane-entered-airspace-over-baltic-sea-on-sunday-germanys-air-force-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441045\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian military plane entered airspace over Baltic Sea on Sunday, Germany&#8217;s air force says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BERLIN\/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany&#8217;s air force on Sunday morning sent two Eurofighters to track a Russian IL-20m military aircraft that had entered neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea, it said, before handing the escort over to NATO partners in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Once again, our quick reaction alert force, consisting of two Eurofighters, was tasked by NATO with investigating an unidentified aircraft without a flight plan or radio contact in international airspace,&#8221; Germany&#8217;s air force said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It was a Russian IL-20M reconnaissance aircraft. After visual identification, we handed over escort duties for the aircraft to our Swedish NATO partners and returned to Rostock-Laage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NATO&#8217;s North Atlantic Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss Russia&#8217;s violation of Estonian airspace, two officials familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tallinn said three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets had entered Estonian airspace without permission on Friday and stayed for a total of 12 minutes before they were forced to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Klaus Lauer and Christoph Steitz; Editing by Hugh Lawson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN\/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany&#8217;s air force on Sunday morning sent two Eurofighters to track a Russian IL-20m military aircraft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[23777,18992,2000,149189,299,1824,131551,2821,149190,149191,148476,149192],"class_list":{"0":"post-441045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-air-force","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-eurofighters","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-military-aircraft","15":"tag-nato","16":"tag-quick-reaction-alert-force","17":"tag-reconnaissance-aircraft","18":"tag-sunday-morning","19":"tag-the-baltic-sea"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115242616912517336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441045","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=441045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}