{"id":46696,"date":"2022-03-03T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46696"},"modified":"2024-03-03T00:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T23:22:28","slug":"the-images-of-russian-combat-aircrafts-that-violated-the-swedish-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/the-images-of-russian-combat-aircrafts-that-violated-the-swedish-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"The images of Russian combat aircrafts that violated the Swedish airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/the-putin-regime-continues-its-campaign-of-terror-and-now-threatens-finland-and-sweden\/\">the threats launched by Russia against Sweden and Finland last Friday<\/a>, a serious incident took place yesterday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/the-putin-regime-continues-its-campaign-of-terror-and-now-threatens-finland-and-sweden\/\">The Putin regime continues its campaign of terror and now threatens Finland and Sweden<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/russia-had-as-many-dead-in-ukraine-in-a-single-week-as-in-afghanistan-in-4-months\/\">Russia had as many dead in Ukraine in a single week as in Afghanistan in 4 months<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The raid took place in the east of the island of Gotland<\/big><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forsvarsmakten.se\/sv\/aktuellt\/2022\/03\/ryska-stridsflygplan-krankte-svenskt-luftrum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a statement published yesterday by the Swedish Armed Forces<\/a> at 7:40 p.m., <strong>this Wednesday <em>\"four Russian warplanes violated Swedish airspace\"<\/em>.<\/strong> In response, the Swedish Air Force sent Jas-39 Gripen fighters and documented the incident through photographs. <strong>The Russian incursion was brief and took place in the east of the island of Gotland<\/strong>, located in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It is a common transit area for Russian military aircraft flying from the Russian coast of the Gulf of Finland to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, between Lithuania and Poland.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d5353151.219177361!2d13.663371395267486!3d57.67323639612893!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x46f79b21976f2afd%3A0xf6a2b0aaed93f7a4!2sGotland!5e0!3m2!1ses!2ses!4v1646312810042!5m2!1ses!2ses\" width=\"665\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Chief of the Air Force, Major General Carl-Johan Edstr\u00f6m, has pointed out that Sweden's rapid response to the Russian incursion<em> \"shows that our preparation is good. <strong>We were in place to ensure the territorial integrity and borders of Sweden. We are in full control of the situation.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915529536_89cd9b1300_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915529536_00e05c569b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><big>he intruders were two Su-27 fighters and two Su-24 attack planes<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Armed Forces have indicated that <strong>the Russian fighter planes that carried out this raid were two Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and two Sukhoi Su-24 attack planes.<\/strong> Sweden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forsvarsmakten.se\/sv\/aktuellt\/2022\/03\/ryska-stridsflygplan-krankte-svenskt-luftrum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has published<\/a> these two photos of the Russian formation (click on the images to see them enlarged). Judging by the layout of the aircraft, <strong>the Su-27s would be escorting the Su-24s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915851499_5f17119a54_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915851499_dfda817fbc_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\"<strong>In light of the current situation, we take the incident very seriously.<\/strong> It is an unprofessional and irresponsible action on the part of Russia\"<\/em>, the Chief of the Swedish Air Force said.<\/p>\n<p><big>Russia threatened Sweden and Finland with \"serious military consequences\" if they joined NATO<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, a day after starting the invasion of Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/the-putin-regime-continues-its-campaign-of-terror-and-now-threatens-finland-and-sweden\/\">Russia threatened Sweden and Finland with \"serious military consequences\" if they decided to join NATO<\/a>. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova used the argument that <em>\"the security of some states should not be built at the expense of the security of other countries.\"<\/em> Russia warned that if Finland and Sweden enter the Atlantic Alliance, it would have <em>\"serious military and political consequences that would require our country to take reciprocal measures.\"<\/em> <strong>The same policy of bullying that has led Russia to invade Ukraine and attack its civilian population<\/strong>, committing serious war crimes.<\/p>\n<p><big>Russia threatened Sweden and Finland again this Wednesday with two letters<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It so happens that this Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/world-news\/russia-ukraine-crisis\/finland-and-sweden-receive-letters-from-putin-demanding-security-guarantees-for-russia-articleshow.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Putin regime has sent letters to the governments of Sweden and Finland demanding \"security guarantees\"<\/a> for Moscow in the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. <strong>In both Nordic countries they have interpreted these letters as a new threat<\/strong> after the one launched by Russia against them last week. These threats <strong>are contributing to inclining more and more Swedish and Finnish citizens to support their countries' entry into NATO<\/strong>, seeing this defensive alliance as an increasingly necessary protection against the growing threat by the Putin regime to peace and security in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and after the threats launched by Russia against Sweden and Finland last Friday, a serious incident took place yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[16205,10731,11372,8143,9655,12941,10383,16206],"class_list":["post-46696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-gotland","tag-russia","tag-russian-air-force","tag-saab-jas-39-gripen","tag-sukhoi-su-24","tag-sukhoi-su-27","tag-sweden","tag-swedish-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}