NATO fighter jets were dispatched yesterday to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that infringed on Swedish airspace in the Baltic Sea. A pair of Eurofighter Typhoon jets were scrambled from an airbase near the German town of Laage to meet the Il-20, with Germany’s air force, the Luftwaffe, sharing unsettling images of the fighter jets closely flanking the Russian plane. The Ilyushin Il-20 electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) aircraft was registered breaking into the Swedish flight information region close to the island of Gotland, which is widely seen as the most strategic location in the Baltic Sea. Is NATO struggling to contain Russia ?
