NATO says Russia has increased provocative military actions in and around the Baltics in recent months. They include the reported incursion of a Russian spy plane into Estonian airspace earlier this week.
“I would suggest that the level of this provocative flying is higher than at the height of the Cold War,” said a NATO spokesman who added that they’ve seen “a threefold increase in the number of NATO intercepts this year than last year in the Baltic region.”
The spokesman added that both Sweden and Finland have seen increases in provocative Russian activity.
Estonia said a Russian Ilyushin-20 surveillance aircraft violated its …read more
Source: Voice of America
