Russia said Sunday that it scrambled fighter jets to prevent two US strategic bomber planes from crossing its border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic.
The US military routinely carries out flights over international waters, operations that it says are conducted in neutral airspace and in accordance with international law, France 24 reported.
The Russian defense ministry said it had scrambled fighter jets to intercept an “air target approaching the state border of the Russian Federation”.
“The crews of the Russian fighters identified the aerial target as a pair of US Air Force B-52H strategic bombers,” it said.
“As the Russian fighters approached, the American strategic bombers corrected their flight course, moving away and then turning away from Russia’s state border,” it said.
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