Russian warplanes have violated Estonian airspace, the foreign ministry in Tallinn has said, condemning the incursion as “brazen”.<\/p>\n
It said three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets “entered Estonian airspace without permission and remained there for a total of 12 minutes” on Friday over the Gulf of Finland.<\/p>\n
The ministry says it summoned the Russian charg\u00e9 d’affaires “to lodge a protest”. EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas described the incursion as “an extremely dangerous provocation”.<\/p>\n
Estonian media are reporting the Russian jets had their transponders switched off in the airspace of a Nato member.<\/p>\n
The Russian military has not publicly commented on the issue.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Estonian Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said Friday’s incursion was “unprecedentedly brazen”.<\/p>\n
He continued: “Russia’s increasingly extensive testing of boundaries and growing aggressiveness must be met with a swift increase in political and economic pressure.”<\/p>\n
The minister added Russia had already violated Estonia’s airspace four times in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian warplanes have violated Estonian airspace, the foreign ministry in Tallinn has said, condemning the incursion as “brazen”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-155128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}