On January 28 – February 3 NATO fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states were scrambled once to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
On January 30 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted one An-26 of the Russian Federation flying from Kaliningrad to mainland Russia with its onboard transponder on, keeping radio communication with the regional air traffic control centre, without the flight plan.
Related photo, credit: Filip Modrzejewski
