On Friday, French Minister for Defence Sébastien Lecornu reported on the escalation from the Russian forces that occurred on the Baltic, during NATO mission, which aims to prevent acts of sabotage and cable interruption at the bottom of the sea.
‘Wednesday evening French sea patrol aircraft Atlanta 2 became the mark of Russian intimidation” he said on the X platform.
The device that took off from Brittany patrolled as part of NATO Operation Baltic Sea Water, all the time being in international airspace.
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At the time, as Lecornu said, the aircraft was “lighted by a fire control radar ground/air defence strategy S400‘. According to the German paper "Der Spiegel", specified data is collected for the usage of anti-aircraft missiles.
Incident in the Baltic Sea. French aircraft tracked by Russian S-400 system
According to a message from the French army, Atlantic 2 has been the victim of ‘tampling’ and ‘fire-guided radar lighting’. In military jargon, the word ‘lighting’ refers to radar mark tracking.
‘This aggressive act of Russia is unacceptable“ He reserved Lecorn. At the same time, he assured that the French armed forces "will proceed to act in the defence of freedom of navigation in global airspace and maritime space".
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Already last year, Lecornu reported that the Russians were threatening French reconnaissance planes on the Black Sea.
"The behaviour of pilots prevented escalation"
The Italian ‘Corriere della Sera’ reported that the aircraft ‘sspent almost 5 hours off the coast of Sweden and the Baltic States, checking about 200 vessels, mainly commercial, without detecting any suspicious units.’
– Aiming radar at our aircraft in global waters is aggressive, said Colonel Guillaume Vernet, spokesperson for the French General Staff. He noted that Russia had thus responded to the actions taken by the North Atlantic Alliance forces in the area.
Vernet stressed that the escalation that could have occurred as a consequence of the incidental prevented professional behaviour of the aircraft crew.
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– This is an act of war that may have been interpreted as an open and direct attack on a French aircraft," commented Tf1 aviation and defence expert Xavier Tytelman.
American General Christopher Cavali, NATO Force Commander in Europe, During a press conference in Brussels, he stressed that the incidental was "serious enough", but is widespread" and "extended far beyond the borders of Europe".
A breach of Romanian airspace. F-16 picked up
The incidental besides occurred in Romanian airspace which was breached during the night Russian attack on Ukraine.
On Friday, the Ministry of Defence there reported in a statement, cited by the Romanian Hotnews portal that two F-16 aircraft of the Romanian Air Force They departed at 1.35 p.m. (35 minutes after midnight in Poland – ed.) from the 86th Air Base from Borcea to monitor the situation in the air. The machines returned to base after 2 hours.
The Ministry reported that in the area of the village of Plauru, located on the border with Ukraine, 30 km north of the town of Tulcza, was found ‘tracks of possible drone impact’. The area has been secured, an investigation is underway.
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According to the Ukrainian portal Truth, the Russians attacked Thursday night on Friday with assault drones port infrastructure in Izmaile in the Ode region.
Ukrainian officials reported no casualties among the people, but respective buildings were damaged. The village of Plauru is about 300 metres from the buildings in Izmaile.
As Reuters recalled, in the last year and a half Romanian airspace has been regularly breached, especially during Russia's attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure over the Danube.
