{"id":594739,"date":"2026-05-20T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594739\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:54:11","slug":"russian-jets-dangerously-intercept-raf-spy-plane-over-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594739\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian jets &#8216;dangerously&#8217; intercept RAF spy plane over Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoD said the Rivet Joint had been conducting a routine international flight to aid in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0q719qg1wko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">securing Nato&#8217;s eastern flank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Condemning the airborne interceptions, Healey said: &#8220;This incident is another example of dangerous and unacceptable behaviour by Russian pilots, towards an unarmed aircraft operating in international airspace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These actions create a serious risk of accidents and potential escalation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;This incident will not deter the UK&#8217;s commitment to defend Nato, our allies and our interests from Russian aggression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoD and Foreign Office have called on the Russian embassy to condemn the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These latest interceptions come amid increased Russian aggression in the region, the MoD added, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cre13qn9z7do\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointing to recent submarine activity over critical underwater British infrastructure in the North Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This incident follows a similar one which saw a &#8220;rogue&#8221; Russian pilot attempt to shoot down an RAF Rivet Joint plane over the Black Sea in September 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MoD said the Rivet Joint had been conducting a routine international flight to aid in securing Nato&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}