Voltage in the air: Russian fighters forced an F – 18 from NATO to move away from a Russian aircraft

Russian fighters Su-27 intercepted Tuesday a F-18 from NATO who had tried to approach the plane where The Russian Minister of Defense traveled, Sergey Shoigú, flying over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.

In the video broadcast by the channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Zvezda (Star), they look like Russian fighters force the F-18 from from the Shoigú plane flying from the Russian Kaliningrad enclave to Moscow.

On the images, you can see the Spanish badge apparently when the plan of the NATO Perform the maneuver away. "Look, it's the number of the headphones," said a voice in Russian in the video, lasting less than half a minute.

In June 2017, another Atlantic Alliance fighter has already tried to get dangerously close to the plane Shoigú on the waters of the Baltic, although it is an occasion for an F-16 Polish air force, according to the agency L & # 39; s interface.

Shoigú warned in the past about the "risks" of escalating fighter jets near Russia's borders and the danger of "provocations and military incidents".