NATO fighter jets take to the skies, responding to Russian planes over the Baltic and Black Seas 

NATO’s press service published a statement on the routine, but essential, flights. NATO radars have detected several unidentified aircraft over the Baltic and Black Seas since 26 April. Joint Air Traffic Control Centers in Udine, Germany, and Torrejón, Spain, since then sent fighter planes in their respective regions to intercept and identify the aircraft.

"Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) fighters from Poland, Denmark, France and Spain have been airborne at different times in the Baltic Sea Region since Tuesday to safeguard Allied airspace. In the Black Sea region QRA aircraft from Romania and the UK have launched to investigate unknown tracks approaching Allied airspace,” the statement on NATO’s website says.