Air Force intercepts Russian military plane over Baltic Sea. As part of NATO, Germany participates in air surveillance over the Baltic states, which do not have their own combat aircraft.
There have been several incidents with Russian military aircraft in the Baltic Sea region in the past. The German Air Force says it intercepted an IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft. The machine was traveling without a transponder signal, the Air Force said in online service X. It took off from the Latvian base in Lielvarde to intercept the plane.