New instant start for the Italian Eurofighter engaged in air policing activities in Poland intercept four Russian fighters who had violated Polish and Swedish airspace before being forced to re-enter the airspace of Kaliningrad. This is a new episode of the war in the skies between Born and Russiawith the tension that remains very high since Moscow raised the specter of nuclear war and even world war if the west were to help Ukraine again, especially after the farcical annexation of the four regions by referendum.
In a note, the Italian Air Force said Russian fighter jets took off from Kaliningrad before violating Polish airspace. The planes of Putin They then crossed the Baltic Sea to Sweden before being “forced” to return to base.
#scramblenew immediate start for the #Eurofighter Italians engaged in air policing activities in Poland to intercept four Russian fighter jets that had impacted Polish and Swedish airspace before being forced to re-enter Kaliningrad airspace pic.twitter.com/xY6b3YA4YI
– Air Force (@ItalianAirForce) October 5, 2022
Poland has long been a member of the alliance, while Sweden only signed the accession protocols this year in response to Putin’s invasion Ukraine. Kaliningrad is a heavily militarized territory cut off from the main Russian state and surrounded by Poland and Lithuania. And it’s often at the center of tensions between Putin and NATO, with Moscow threatening to station nuclear weapons in the enclave earlier this year.
The consequences of the last few weeks
Already in the last few days the Born had warned of a Russian plane on the border with Poland. A presence that had not been communicated and therefore, according to procedure, the Alliance sent two planes to determine the target and operations. Skirmishes at high altitude, a warning of the voltage level in the area. The Italian fighters are actually stationed in the base Malborkin northern Poland, not far from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. And again, in recent weeks, other Italian Eurofighters in Poland had intervened on similar cases in the NATO air policing mission, intercepting three Russian planes flying near the Atlantic Alliance’s northeastern flank. In short, certainly not a novelty in wartime. But another sign of how high the attention threshold is worldwide.
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