Two Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers conducted a flight over neutral Baltic Sea waters, the state-run news agency RIA reported, citing the Defence Ministry.
The flight, lasting more than four hours, saw foreign fighter jets accompanying the Russian planes at certain stages, though the ministry did not specify which countries were involved.
All nations bordering the Baltic Sea—Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia—are NATO members.
Russian jets were intercepted multiple times over the Baltic last year, in what analysts have described as both surveillance operations and acts of defiance against NATO.
