According to Russia's TASS news agency, on Monday, aircrafts from the air forces of the United States, German Naval Forces and Swedish Air Forces made a simultaneous approach to the maritime borders of the Kaliningrad region to perform operational reconnaissance tasks. According to the agency the information was initially reported by western websites monitoring the movement of military aviation.

As was reported, at approximately 12:30 an aircraft from the US Air Forces was recorded near the Russian coast in the south of the Baltic Sea. An RC-135W strategic reconnaissance aircraft with a tail number 62-4139 and a call sign QUINT79, which left the Mildenhall Air Base in Great Britain, conducted an electronic reconnaissance of the Russian territory near the coast of the Kaliningrad region.

At around the same time, a Swedish Gulfstream 4 reconnaissance aircraft with a tail number 102003 and a call sign SVF623 approached from the north of the Baltic at an attitude of about 12,200 meters. It made two flights along the whole coast, circling in an elongated ellipse.

Moreover, a Р-3С Orion patrol anti-submarine aircraft from the German Naval Forces with the tail number 60+05 and a call sign GNY4534 left the Nordholz Airbase in the direction of the Russian borders in the south of the Baltic.

In the last several months, the intensity of flights by American reconnaissance aircrafts near the Russian borders, particularly in the Baltic near the Crimean coasts, over Russian Air Bases in Syria and areas where Russian Navy warships are deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean, has sharply increased. Two to three such flights are registered nearly every day.

On Friday and Saturday, an American reconnaissance aircraft made similar approaches to the Kaliningrad region.

Recently, Swedish military aircraft have started to carry out regular reconnaissance flights near the Kaliningrad region and over the areas of the movement of Russian warships in the waters of the Baltic Sea.

  NATO, Baltics, Russia

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