Two Gripen fighter jets chased away a Russian Su-24 fighter jet that entered the island of Gotland

Two JAS model military aircraft of the Swedish Air Force The flight had to be scrambled on Friday to thwart a violation of Swedish airspace by Russian military fighter, model SU-24On the island of Gotland, in the southeast of the Nordic country, the local news agency TT reported this Saturday. According to this media outlet, Swedish military aircraft intervened and He asked the Russian fighter jet to leave the airspace it had invaded.

They received no response from the Russian aircraft, but TT described the incident as a “short duration” incident. “This Russian action is not acceptable and shows a lack of respect for our territorial integrity”said a statement compiled by Swedish Air Force chief TT Jonas Wilkman. “We followed the full procedure and we were deployed to intervene,” he said, referring to Swedish military action.

This is not the first time that such an incident has affected military aircraft from both countries. Other northern European countries such as Finland have also faced this type of situation with Russian military aircraft recently.

In fact, on Friday, the Finnish Border Guard reported that four Russian military aircraft had allegedly violated the Nordic country’s airspace last Monday.

The alleged territorial violation took place last Monday morning off the coast of Loviisa (southeastern Finland), when Russian aircraft penetrated approximately 2.5 kilometres into Finnish airspace for approximately two minutes.