This is the second such incident in two days and the third this month.
MOSCOW: Russia’s defence ministry said today it had scrambled an MIG-31 jet to intercept a Norwegian military plane over the Barents Sea near the two countries’ Arctic border, the second such incident in two days and the third this month.
In a statement, the ministry said the Norwegian plane had neared Russian airspace but then had moved away after the Russian jet approached. Relations between Russia and Norway, a Nato member state which shares a short Arctic border with Russia, have deteriorated further since Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022.
Russia’s defence ministry had previously said it scrambled fighter jets to intercept a Norwegian aircraft on Aug 14 and then again yesterday.
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