French Mirage 2000 intercepts Russian reconnaissance plane off Estonia. French military aircraft are deployed in the Baltic States as part of a NATO mission called “sky police” Last November, France announced the deployment of four Mirage 2000-5* in Lithuania.
Their role is to “preserve the security of Alliance airspace” Already in May 2023, Russia indicated that it had taken off one of its warplanes to meet two military aircraft, one French and the other German, over the Baltic Sea.