On Saturday, the 11th of March, US Air Force’s strategic bomber B-52 flew close to Russia’s north-eastern borders approximately 200 km away from St. Petersburg, as reported by Radio Freedom.
The bomber was accompanied by Polish fighter jets. The flight was carried out in the evening on Saturday in the Gulf of Finland region, according to data from Flightradar24. The bomber left the air field in Poland, flew over the Baltic Sea. Around Estonian Hiiumaa Island the bomber changed direction towards St. Petersburg. Around Russia’s Hogland Island, however, the bomber changed course and flew over Baltic States.
Polish Minister of Defence Mariusz Blaszczak wrote on Twitter that the bomber was accompanied by Polish fighter jets. In situations when NATO bombers approach Russia’s borders, it is usually escorted by Russian interceptors. But this time nothing like that happened, Radio Freedom reports.
As Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsololyets was told by Russian western war region press-service, interceptors would have been deployed had the B-52 bomber come «critically close to the border».
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US bomber flies 200 km away from Russia’s St. Petersburg
