France slams ‘unacceptable’ Russian targeting of Baltic patrol flight

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‘This aggressive Russian action is not acceptable,’ French defense minister said

On Wednesday evening, the French maritime patrol aircraft Atlantique 2 became the object of intimidation by Russia in the Baltic Sea. In France, such actions of the Russian Federation were called aggressive and unacceptable.

In recent days, there have been incidents with Russia. First, an air defense system targeted a French reconnaissance aircraft, and later a drone is said to have entered Romanian airspace.

During a NATO mission over the Baltic Sea, one of the alliance's maritime patrol aircraft was detected by the radar of a Russian air defense system, according to information from Paris. France's defense minister condemned the action and called it an "aggressive Russian act."

A Russian army radar targeted a French maritime patrol plane while flying over the Baltic Sea. Paris: 'Unacceptable'

France slams ‘unacceptable’ Russian targeting of Baltic patrol flight

PARIS — France says a Russian S-400 air-defense system targeted a French maritime patrol flight over the Baltic Sea this week in what the country’s Armed Forces Minister Sébastian Lecornu called an “unacceptable” act of aggression.A French Atlantique 2 aircraft patrolling international airspace over the Baltic as part of a NATO mission was targeted by the fire-control system of the S-400 ground-to-air missile system in the night of Wednesday to …