Finland’s Ministry of Defence has recently revealed that two Russian military aircraft violated the airspace of the northern European country earlier this week. The official statement was published on the MoD official website on Tuesday.
A Finnish Air Force F-18 Hornet fighter jet was scrambled in order to intercept the intruders.
The Russian response was that Tu-22M bombers escorted by Su-27 fighters (more or less the same kind of formation that staged the mock attack on Sweden some weeks ago) were flying close to the border but did not violate it.
Nevertheless it is the second incident involving Finland and Russian planes this month. On the earlier episode the Russian official statement was that the planes came close to the border due to the bad weather.
In one way or another one, this is just the last of a series of incidents involving Russian planes in the Scandinavian region.
Jacek Siminski for TheAviationist
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