{"id":29944,"date":"2026-05-20T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/29944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:44:08","slug":"raf-plane-dangerously-intercepted-by-russian-fighter-jets-over-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/29944\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF plane &#8216;dangerously intercepted&#8217; by Russian fighter jets over Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"RAF plane &#039;dangerously intercepted&#039; by Russian fighter jets over Black Sea\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ImbtT2Sm6mA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRAF plane &#8216;dangerously intercepted&#8217; by Russian fighter jets over Black Sea<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAn RAF reconnaissance plane was &#8220;repeatedly and dangerously intercepted&#8221; by two Russian fighter jets last month, the Ministry of Defence has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Su-35 and Su-27 warplanes approached the unarmed Rivet Joint aircraft during a routine flight in international airspace over the Black Sea, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The Su-35 flew close enough to trigger the plane&#8217;s emergency systems, including disabling the autopilot, and at one point coming within six metres of its nose.<\/p>\n<p>Live updates: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraine-war-latest-deadly-deep-strikes-target-moscow-as-russia-hits-chinese-owned-ship-12541713<\/p>\n<p>#ukraine #russia #raf #ukmilitary #ministryofdefence <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews<\/p>\n<p>Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\/<br \/>\nFor more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAF plane &#8216;dangerously intercepted&#8217; by Russian fighter jets over Black Sea An RAF reconnaissance plane was &#8220;repeatedly and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[30172,177,31027,2404,17,296,590,79],"class_list":["post-29944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-black-sea","tag-breaking","tag-interception","tag-raf","tag-russia","tag-sky-news","tag-sky-news-live","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116608185356217873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}