“Exaggerated hysteria”. The Kremlin briefly rejects the accusations of NATO's air space breach by Russian fighter planes
MIG-31K aircraft of Russian air forces carrying a high precision hypersonic ballistic missile KH-47M2 Kinjal, during the Victoria Day military parade, on May 9
Moscow rejected the accusations of repeated NATO's repeated violations on Wednesday, cataloging them as “hysteria” after the US President Donald Trump said the Allied states should break down Russian planes if they violate their territory, writes France Presse.
NATO countries claim that several fighter jets and Russian drones have violated the airspace of European Member States in recent weeks, accusing Moscow of testing the limits of the Alliance.
“We hear an exaggerated hysteria about the alleged violation of some rules and the invasion of someone else's airspace by our military pilots,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, adding that the charges are “unfounded.”
Tuesday, Trump said he “believes” that NATO countries should break down Russian planes that violate their air space.
“Yes, I believe this,” Trump replied to reporters when he was asked about the breaking of aircraft by Allied states. Trump made these statements in front of reporters during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, in the margin of the General Assembly (UN) in New York.
Later, he refrained from saying that the United States will join efforts to break down Russian aircraft that violate NATO's airspace. “It depends on the circumstances,” said the American leader. “But you know, we are very strong like NATO,” he added.
The planes of the North Atlantic Alliance intercepted last week three MIG-31 Russian fighter jets after they entered Estonia's airspace above the Gulf of Finland.
On Monday, Denmark was forced to close the airport in the Copenhagen capital after announcing that unidentified drones caused the deviation or cancellation of dozens of flights, a decision that affected thousands of passengers.
“Our military aviation complies with all the rules and flight regulations, guides themselves after them and respects them strictly,” Peskov told journalists on Wednesday, at his daily press conferences.
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NATO said on Tuesday that it is “too early to say” whether drone flights above Denmark are related to the recent violations of the Alliance's airspace by Russia.
On the night of September 9 to 10, about 20 drones entered Poland's airspace, and NATO fighter jets broke a premiere in the history of its creation in 1949 and so far.
Subsequently, a Russian drone entered the airspace of Romania, which the Romanian pilots decided not to break.
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