By the end of the day, the NBS reported that a total of four strategic rocket-platform TU-95 bombers and two strategic sea bombers TU-22 had been spotted near Latvian airspace over the neutral edge of the Baltic Sea, prompting scrambles by the jet pilots of the BAP.
NATO Baltic Air Policing QRA jets on 7 DEC scrambled to intercept RU Armed Forces 2x Tu-134, 1x An-72 over the Baltic Sea.
— NBS (@Latvijas_armija) December 7, 2014
Also Saturday Estonian daily Postimiees reported that a large number of Russian air force planes were heading in the direction of Kaliningrad.
NATO Baltic Air Policing QRA CF-188 jets on 7 DEC scrambled to intercept RU Armed Forces 3x Tu-134, 1x An-72 over the Baltic Sea.
— NBS (@Latvijas_armija) December 7, 2014
The NBS tweet also mentions the AN-72 as another type of aircraft intercepted by the BAP Sunday.
NATO Baltic Air Policing QRA F-16 jets on 7 DEC scrambled to intercept RU Armed Forces 4x Tu-95; 2x Tu-22 over the Baltic Sea.
— NBS (@Latvijas_armija) December 7, 2014
