FOUR RUSSIAN warplanes have been intercepted after they flew into Nato airspace as tensions proceed to rage between Vladimir Putin and the West.
Italian Air Drive fighter planes have been scrambling after Putin’s jets have been detected straying into airspace belonging to Poland and Sweden from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Rome despatched 4 Eurofighter Hurricane fighter jets to Poland as a part of a Nato air policing mission again in July – with the warplanes stationed at Malbork Air Base.
Poland is a very long time member of the alliance, whereas Sweden solely this 12 months signed protocols to hitch in response to Putin’s vicious struggle in Ukraine.
Kaliningrad is a closely militarised piece of territory lower off from the primary Russian state and surrounded by Poland and Lithuania.
It’s usually on the centre of tensions between Putin and Nato – with Moscow earlier this 12 months threatening to deploy nukes to the area.
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