Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that a Su-27 fighter had intercepted a US Air Force spy plane and prevented it from violating Russia's borders over the Black Sea.
And the Russian Sputnik news agency quoted the ministry as saying that “the Russian airspace control systems monitored an air target approaching the border over the Black Sea, and in order to identify it and prevent it from penetrating the borders of the Russian state, a Sukhoi-27 fighter belonging to the Southern Military District took off and was identified as an “RC” reconnaissance plane. 135 “belonging to the US Air Force, and it was escorted and removed from the area.”
Yesterday, Russian fighters intercepted two American spy planes over the Black Sea and prevented them from violating Russian airspace.