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Russia's Chargé d'Affairs in Britain Alexander Gusarov urged London not to create an artificial flashpoint of tension in the Arctic.
Commenting on the violation of Russian airspace by a British reconnaissance plane, Gosarov said in a television interview, according to RIA Novosti: “The talk here is about a very blatant and blatant violation of international law represented by a British reconnaissance aircraft violating the borders of the Russian state, and this is a deliberate and planned provocation with the aim of exposing our defense system at the same time. Testing the limits of our patience.
Gusarov added: "Here we call on our British colleagues not to follow this very dangerous path and not to create an artificial hotbed of tension out of nowhere in the Arctic region, which has been declared a zone of cooperation and peace."
Gusarov likened this incident to what the British destroyer (Defender) did last year when it entered Russian territorial waters near the Crimea.
Last Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that a British reconnaissance plane violated the Russian air border in the Svyatoy Nos region of Murmansk province and was expelled from Russian airspace by a MiG-31 interceptor fighter, while the British Embassy in Russia claimed that British Air Force planes carried out a routine operation. In the airspace over the Norwegian Sea and Barents.
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