France denies warship delivery, as Russian bombers skirt EU airspace The Mistral debacle comes at a bad time, as Nato on Wednesday said it had intercepted 19 Russian aircraft flying close to European airspace. Russian bombers, fighter jets, and tanker aircraft were detected over the Atlantic Ocean and the North, Black and Baltic seas, Nato said. There were no incursions into Nato or EU airspace, but in at least one of the four incidents, the aircraft had switched off their transponders and had not communicated their route to air traffic controllers, potentially creating a risk for civilian planes. Fighter jets from Norway, Britain, Portugal, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Sweden were involved in responding to the Russian aircraft, Nato said. Its concerning because its moving in the wrong direction. Its not helping to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine. Its not helping to improve relations between Nato and Russia. It’s not helping anybody, a US official told Washington Post. euobserver/foreign/126306
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:26:11 +0000
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