A near-collision between a Russian military plane and a Polish aircraft has forced NATO to put its air police on “higher readiness,” a NATO official told The Daily Beast.
The incident occurred overnear Romania on Friday, when the Polish aircraft was conducting a patrol as part of its responsibilities with Frontex, the European Union’s border agency. Frontex is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.
“NATO air policing detachments were put on higher readiness in response to the dangerous behaviour of a Russian military plane in the vicinity of a Polish Frontex aircraft over the Black Sea near Romania on Friday,” the official told The Daily Beast. “NATO remains vigilant.”The Russian jet, a Su-35, made three “aggressive and dangerous maneuvers” toward the Polish plane, according to the Polish Border Guard.
The news comes just weeks after a Russian Su-35 aircraft conducted an “unsafe and unprofessional intercept” with an American F-16 aircraft over Syria, according to the Pentagon. The latest incident also comes two months afteraircraft, MQ-9, was completely downed after the incident given the damage it sustained.At the time, Russia denied it had acted unprofessionally and that it hit the U.S. drone.
John Kirby, a White House National Security Council Coordinator, said at the time that these kinds of moves will not deter the United States from operating over the Black Sea even as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine. “If the message is that they want to deter or dissuade us from flying and operating in international airspace, over the Black Sea, then that message will fail… we are going to continue to fly and operate in international airspace over international waters,” Kirby said in March.
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