On May 15, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that two military aircraft, a German and a French one, were heading towards Russia from the Baltic Sea.. They allegedly planned to violate the borders of the Russian Federation.

“Russian means of airspace control over the Baltic Sea have detected two air targets approaching the State Border of the Russian Federation. The crew of the Russian fighter jet identified the targets as the R-3C Orion base patrol aircraft of the German Navy and the Atlantic-2 anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the French Navy,” the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that no violations of the state border were allowed..

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The Russian Defense Ministry claims that their fighter operated "

The French and German defense ministries said their planes flew regularly as part of NATO exercises " They were quoted by the BBC Russian Service.

In particular, the German military department reported that their P-3C Orion was conducting an observation flight over the Baltic Sea and “flied, as expected, in the direction of Kaliningrad”.

The French side said that the rendezvous of their Atlantic 2 aircraft and the Russian Su-27 was "

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Recall that on May 8, the United States transferred to the Emari air base near Tallinn (Estonia) a squadron of multi-purpose fighters of the 5th generation F-22 Raptor.