The incidents occurred on Friday in the southern and northern parts of the Baltic Sea. NATO fighters also took off, “to maintain security in the common airspace,” the Swedish army said in a statement. It added that Russian aircraft did not violate Swedish airspace.
“Russian actions are serious and represent a repeated pattern of behavior that endangers both our territorial integrity and security,” said Ewa Skoog Haslum, chief of joint operations of the armed forces. Tensions on the eastern flank of the NATO alliance have escalated since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In recent times, several countries in the region have reported Russian violations of their airspace and drone incursions.
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