Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, August 24. According to Russian media reports on the 24th, Russian fighter planes intercepted American, Swedish and German reconnaissance planes over the Baltic Sea that day.
The TASS news agency quoted a report from the Russian National Defense Command Center that the Russian army found three targets trying to approach the Russian border over the neutral area of the Baltic Sea that day. Subsequently, a Su-27 fighter jet belonging to the Russian Baltic Fleet lifted off to identify it. The three aircraft were the American RC-135 reconnaissance plane, the Swedish Gulfstream reconnaissance plane and the German P-3C Orion reconnaissance plane.
According to the news, the Russian fighter jets always abide by the rules of international airspace use during the flight, and return to the base airport after the opponent is far away from the Russian border. Russian airspace has not been violated.