Lithuania suspects two Russian attack aircraft of violating its airspace

Lithuania suspects that two Russian attack aircraft SU-24 have violated its airspace while flying over the Baltic Sea.

The incident took place on Tuesday morning, the Lithuanian Armed Forces reported.

“Two Russian warplanes potentially violated Lithuania’s airspace above the country’s territorial waters in the Baltic Sea at approximately 9.45 a.m. yesterday,” Major Gintautas Ciunis, spokesman of the Lithuanian army, told BNS on Wednesday.

“It’s likely that those were two SU-24s,” he added.

According to Ciunis, the Russian aircraft suspectedly spent approximately a minute in the Lithuanian airspace.