Estonia launched consultations with NATO military partners after saying that three Russian fighter aircraft violated their air space on Friday in an “unprecedented” way.
This year, the fourth Russian entry to Estonia and the third violation of the air space by a member of the North Atlantic contract would be a violation this month after incidents in Poland and Romania.
A spokesman for the Alliance Military Command said that NATO mixed the Italian fighter F-35, based in Estonia, which was joined by Swedish and Finnish rapid treatment, in response to violation of Russian airspace.
“It is not a type of behavior that would expect from a professional aviation,” said Colonel Martin O’Donnell in his statement.
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal called a violation “completely unacceptable” and said that Estonia has triggered Article four of the NATO contract that triggers consultations and can open the way to the coordinated action between the Allies.
“NATO fighters replied, and Russian aircraft were forced to flee,” he said in the paper on X.
The Eastern side of NATO is in high readiness after the Alliance has taken an unprecedented drawing of Russian drones that entered the Polish airspace this month, the first such step from the invasion of Ukraine in Moscow 2022. Poland was looking for a NATO consultation after this incident on September 10.
The Estonian government convened Russian accusations earlier on Friday after the invasion reports appeared. Kaja Kallas, head of foreign affairs of the European Union and former Estonian Prime Minister, described the incident as X.
MiGS entered the Estonian air space through the Finnish Gulf without permission for a total of 12 minutes in a “unprecedented insolent” entry, said Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna in his statement.
“Russian still extensive boundaries and growing aggression must be met by a rapid increase in political and economic pressure,” he said.
Then it strengthened its eastern borders by deploying other air defense systems and military nozzles in an operation called Eastern Sentry.
“As we have previously said, Eastern Sentry integrates defense in air and land and better combines existing activities such as the air police, into a more cohesive defense posture,” O’Donnell said. “That was exposed today.”
Russia has recently closed its latest installment of war games with Belarus, known as the fit-first exercise since its full invasion of Ukraine.
In Poland, the border guard also reported the “provocative behavior” of the Russian Air Force on Friday and said that two Russian nozzles flew low near the Orlen SA oil platform in the Baltic Sea.
With the help of Andrea Paciano, Piotr Scolimowski and Patrick Donahue.
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