On December 4–10 NATO Air Policing Mission Detachment fighter aircraft were scrambled once to intercept aircraft of the Russian Federation violating flight rules in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
On December 6 Allied fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states were scrambled to intercept one SU-24 and two SU-30SM aircraft that were flying through international airspace from a location in Kaliningrad and back. They had no flight plan, the onboard transponders were switched off, the crews were not maintaining radio communication with the regional air traffic control centre.
