The Russian air force's 'coots' have been encountered skirting the edges of the airspace of the Baltic countries on a regular basis for almost a year now, as their air routes between St. Petersburg and Russia's Kaliningrad naval-base enclave tucked against Lithuania on the Baltic coast take them directly along the radar-monitored borders.
NATO Baltic Air Policing QRA ITA Typhoon jets on 27 FEB scrambled to intercept RU Armed Forces Il-20 over the Baltic Sea.
— NBS (@Latvijas_armija) February 27, 2015
The most recent NATO BAP intercept of an IL-20 was on February 12, just two weeks ago.
