MOSCOW — The most important turn in new relations between Russia and NATO came exactly one week before the Warsaw summit of the alliance July 8-9. During his short visit to Finland, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the press that he accepted a proposal by his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinistö, to discuss the use of transponders by Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea as a confidence-building measure with NATO.
Accusations from the U.S. about not using transponders, and therefore creating the risk of collisions between fighter jets, became a routine salvo from the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis two-and-a-half years …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
