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South Korea's subject said it had scrambled combatant jets erstwhile Chinese and Russian subject planes entered and near its aerial defence portion connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025).
Seven Russian planes and 2 Chinese planes had entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) astatine astir 10 a.m. (0100 GMT) past left, and determination was nary breach of its territorial airspace, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
An earlier study by the Newsis quality bureau had said 11 planes had entered the aerial defence zone.
The Russian and Chinese subject craft had been identified and South Korean combatant jets were deployed successful lawsuit of immoderate contingencies, the JCS said.
The craft spent astir an hr successful the KADIZ disconnected South Korea's eastbound and southbound coast, the Yonhap News Agency besides cited South Korea's subject arsenic saying.
Chinese and Russian subject craft typically behaviour associated exercises astir the Korean Peninsula erstwhile oregon doubly a year, Yonhap reported.
