This brings the count to three air intercepts so far this year after an almost month-long break in what had become regular buzzings by Russian military aircraft off the edges of Latvia's airspace over the Baltic Sea, yet remaining formally within internationally corridors.
NATO Baltic Air Policing QRA ESP Typhoon jets on 23 JAN scrambled to intercept RU Armed Forces Il-20 over the Baltic Sea.
— NBS (@Latvijas_armija) January 23, 2015
Last week Russia's Ambassador to Latvia downplayed the significance of the flights near the border, defending their legality and routine nature in the supplying of Kaliningrad.
