The Kremlin on Monday accused NATO countries of aggravating tensions with their “unfounded” accusations that Russia violated some of its air spacesafter Estonia said last week that Russian combat planes flew over their territory.
“We consider that such words are empty, unfounded and a continuation of the completely furious line of climbing tensions that cause an atmosphere of confrontation,” said the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, at his daily telephone press conference, when asked about the accusations of the Baltic country during his daily press conference.
On Friday, Three Russian combat aircraft entered the Estonian airspace and remained there 12 minutes, which raised protests from NATO and the European Union against a new Russian “provocation”, while Moscow denied any violation. “It is not a novelty for Estonia’s foreign policy or other Baltic countries. We constantly observe it. But now, of course, to our regret, this is further aggravating tensions in the region,” said Peskov.
NATO meeting tomorrow
The representatives of the 32 NATO countries will meet Tuesday morning in Brussels, at the request of Estonia, to address these facts. Tensions between Moscow and NATO members are at their peak since the beginning of the Russian on a large scale in Ukraine in February 2022.
For its part, the UN Security Council will meet on Monday “in response to the flagrant violation of Estonian airspace by Russia,” the Estonia Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday.
At the beginning of September, about twenty Russian drones entered the Polish airspace, three of which were demolished by Poles and F-35 Dutch, something unpublished for NATO since its creation in 1949. Days later, Romania denounced in turn the violation of her airspace by a Russian drone.
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