{"id":31085,"date":"2025-09-19T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31085\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:32:07","slug":"nato-responds-after-russian-military-jets-violate-estonian-airspace-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31085\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO responds after Russian military jets ‘violate’ Estonian airspace | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATO says it has responded after Russian military jets “violated” Estonian airspace.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Estonian<\/a> government said the incident involved three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets that flew over the Gulf of Finland for a total of 12 minutes without permission.<\/p>\n

A NATO spokesperson said the Russian jets “violated Estonian airspace” and “NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft”.<\/p>\n

“This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond.”<\/p>\n

Estonia is the third NATO<\/a> country to report an incursion of its airspace by Russia in recent weeks: On Sunday, Romania said a drone breached its airspace<\/a> during a Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said Russia<\/a> had already violated Estonian airspace four times this year, “which is unacceptable in itself, but today’s violation, during which three fighter jets entered our airspace, is unprecedentedly brazen”.<\/p>\n

“Russia’s ever-increasing testing of borders and aggressiveness must be responded to by rapidly strengthening political and economic pressure,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Poland also reported an “unprecedented violation” of its airspace<\/a> by more than a dozen Russian drones last week. Moscow denied responsibility for the incident.<\/p>\n

The UK had previously summoned the Russian ambassador<\/a> in London in response to the “utterly unacceptable” Romanian and Polish incursions.<\/p>\n

In response to the latest incident, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the “violation of Estonia’s airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation”.<\/p>\n

She added that the EU “stands in full solidarity with Estonia,” and said: “We will continue to support our member states in strengthening their defences with European resources.<\/p>\n

“Putin is testing the West’s resolve. We must not show weakness.”<\/p>\n

Estonia’s government also said that in May, Russia had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a “shadow fleet” defying Western sanctions on Moscow.<\/p>\n

It added that the Russian deputy ambassador was summoned and given a protest note.<\/p>\n

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The incursion comes after the head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service said there is “absolutely no evidence”<\/a> that Vladimir Putin<\/a> wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

MI6<\/a> chief Sir Richard Moore told a news conference on Friday that the Russian president was “stringing us along”.<\/p>\n

“He seeks to impose his imperial will by all means at his disposal. But he cannot succeed,” Sir Moore said.<\/p>\n

“Bluntly, Putin has bitten off more than he can chew. He thought he was going to win an easy victory. But he – and many others – underestimated the Ukrainians.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO says it has responded after Russian military jets “violated” Estonian airspace. In a statement, the Estonian government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-31085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}