British authorities themselves announced the interception on Monday afternoon, according to the Reuters news agency.
According to authorities, the Russian bombers were near the northern border of a region designated by NATO as a “Air Police Area”.
Earlier on Monday, Denmark identified two Russian bombers heading towards Dutch airspace. Defense on X (Formerly Twitter).
It is not known whether the two planes are the same.
However, according to NTB, the bomber heading to the Netherlands must have been a “Tupolev” bomber.
On Monday, Russia’s state-run RIA news agency also reported that Russian MiG-29 fighter jets on Monday intercepted two Norwegian fighter jets suspected of approaching Russian airspace over the Barents Sea.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims it must be an R-8A “Poseidon” aircraft.
Reidar Flasnes, press officer at the operational headquarters of the Norwegian Armed Forces, confirmed that a Norwegian plane had been identified by a Russian plane – something he described as a normal occurrence.
– There has been a Norwegian military aircraft identified by a Russian aircraft in international airspace. “We consider it a normal activity and it often goes both ways,” Flasnes said.
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