(Bloomberg) – The UN Security Council will meet on Monday at the request of Estonia to discuss Friday’s violation of the Baltic Airspace by Russian fighters.
This is the first time in the 34 years of UN membership, which Tallinn applied for an emergency meeting, said the Estonian Foreign Ministry. She considered Russian actions “part of a wider Russian campaign to test Europe and NATO”.
Separately, NATO jets were again meant on Sunday morning in response to the Russian military aircraft flying in a neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea, the German Air Force said in a statement published on the social media.
On Friday’s incident, three armed Russian fighter aircraft entered the Estonian air space for 12 minutes on Friday, which violated the territorial integrity of Estonia and the principle of the UN Charter, said Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Nation.
“Russian behavior is not in line with obligations received by a permanent member of the Security Council,” Tsahkna said. “It is therefore essential that such measures – especially if it has a permanent member of the Security Council – are solved in this body.”
Monday’s meeting will start at 10 am in New York.
This violation was considered this year’s fourth Russian entry to Estonia and the third violation of NATO member just this month after incidents in Poland and Romania.
Poland and the Allied aircraft were re -deployed early on Saturday to protect the Polish air space during Russian strikes at Far at Western Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry denied that its nozzles entered the Estonian air space on Friday and said that the plane watched the planned trip from Karelia Republic – which borders with Finland – to Kaliningrad Excrave.
On Sunday, NATO launched two German aircraft Eurofighter in response to a Russian aircraft, which traveled without a flight plan or radio contact in international waters, the German Air Force said on its WhatsApp canal.
Jets took off from the Air Base of Rostock-Laage in northeast Germany and accompanied the Russian plane until NATO partners from Sweden were taken over. The aircraft was an IL-20m tracking aircraft, Germany said.
(Update of Russian military aircraft over the Baltic, from the third paragraph.)
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