The Russian military aircraft Su-24 violated on Tuesday (11.02) the airspace over Polish territorial waters. The flight of the aircraft was observed by radiolocation systems of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland – the Operations Command of Types of Armed Forces handed over in the communication.
"We inform that on 11 February 2025, at 14.09 in the east part of the Gulf of Gdańsk, there was a breach of airspace over the territorial waters of Poland by the Su-24MR aircraft of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – the Operations Command of Armed Forces Types on platform X (d. Twitter).
The military pointed out that "the aircraft which was on the flight from the Kölyevec Oblast violated the Polish airspace at a maximum depth of 6.5 km and stayed in it for 1 minute and 12 seconds".
DORSZ emphasizes that the aircraft has been watched all along. ‘The flight way was immediately changed after the FR Force navigator's intervention. Polish on-call services supervising the airspace were in contact with the Russian side, which confirmed the breach of the Polish airspace and reported that it was caused by a failure of the Su-24MR aircraft's navigation system" stressed DORSZ.
The command indicated that the cast of the air defence strategy of the Republic of Poland conducts a 24-hour reflection of the Polish airspace, remaining in constant readiness to guarantee its safety.
Russia continues to “test” NATO systems
It is worth recalling that the Russian tactics presume constant investigating of the enemy's air defence systems, i.e. Poland. akin situations happen rather regularly, a catalog of Russians (and besides Belarusians) include flying into another countries' airspace, risky flights alongside “enemy” aircraft and drones, sending missiles.
In 2015, the same bomber breached Turkey's airspace. He flew into it for just 17 seconds and little than 2,300 meters. The Turks say they've warned the pilot 10 times about the breach. Su-24 was shot down. It was the first in the 1950s. 20th century case of NATO forces shooting down a Russian military aircraft.
The Russians aided by the Chinese notoriously besides destruct method infrastructure at the bottom of the Baltic. all time a mysterious failure is triggered, 1 of the offshore power or telecommunications cables falls.
