Swedish, Finnish Jets Intercept Russian Aircraft over Gulf of Finland

Swedish and Finnish fighter jets were scrambled to intercept and identify Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Gulf of Finland on Thursday, the Finnish Air Force reported Friday. The mission took place under a broader Finnish-Swedish airspace monitoring framework designed to safeguard both nations’ skies. Finnish and Swedish aircraft located and identified a group of Russian planes, including a transport aircraft and several fighter jets. The reporting, by Stine Jacobsen and edited by Terje Solsvik, frames the incident as part of routine joint air-defense operations in the Nordic region, where airspace oversight is coordinated across borders.