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Sweden said Saturday (June 13, 2026) it had scrambled 2 pairs of JAS 39 Gripen combatant jets a time earlier to intercept 2 Russian combat craft flying implicit the Baltic Sea adjacent its airspace.
The 2 incidents occurred connected Friday (June 12, 2026) successful the confederate and bluish parts of the Baltic Sea. NATO combatant jets besides took disconnected “to support information successful the shared airspace,” Sweden’s subject said successful a statement.
Swedish airspace was not violated successful transportation with the incidents, it said.
“The Russian actions are superior and represent a recurring signifier of behaviour that threatens some our territorial integrity and security,” Vice-Admiral Ewa Skoog Haslum, the equipped forces’ main of associated operations, said successful the statement.
Sweden joined NATO successful March 2024.
Tensions implicit the Baltic Sea person risen sharply since Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful 2022.
