Two Russian military aircraft entered Lithuania's airspace on Thursday for about 18 seconds, the country's military said on Thursday.
The two aircraft, identified as an Su-30 fighter jet and an Il-78 refuelling tanker, were thought to have been on a refuelling training mission when they crossed the border into NATO member Lithuania at around 1600 CET from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon jets from NATO's Baltic Air Police were scrambled and are patrolling the area, the military said in a
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