Incidents

The UK has applied for a flight of a scout aircraft over Russia

After yesterday's notification of the Russian Defense Ministry for violation of airspace, the British applied for a flight. However, the Russian Federation considers it a deliberate provocation. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has received an application from the UK for the passage of the RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft along the route over the territory of Russia. About it reports "RIA Novosti". The UK has applied for a plane in the Russian airspace after yesterday's incident.

In the Russian department, such actions were called conscious provocation. Therefore, air and space forces were tasked with preventing the passage of a British aircraft over the Russian territory. "Russia's air and space forces have been given the task of preventing airspace. We will remind, yesterday, August 15, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declared a violation of airspace by the British plane of intelligence RC-135.