This morning, a Russian spy plane entered NATO airspace over the Baltic. The German newspaper Bild reported that two German fighter jets intercepted and escorted the aircraft.
The French General Staff reported that Russia had targeted a French patrol aircraft during a surveillance mission over the Baltic Sea. According to a post on social media from the French Armed Forces Joint Staff, a Breguet 1150 Atlantic patrol aircraft was monitoring underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea when it was targeted by Russian military forces.
The report indicated that the Breguet 1150 was attacked by a fire control radar, which, according to the French General Staff, might have come from a naval unit.
Ukrainian military news site Militarnyi suggested that the naval unit could have been a warship. The French General Staff described the incident as an “aggressive and unjustified attempt to disrupt freedom of navigation in international airspace,” but noted that the fire control targeting did not escalate further.
United24 reported that the incident occurred over international waters, and that the type of radar detection “typically precedes a potential deployment and raises concerns about an escalation of tensions in the region.”
