Overview

• Estonia said three Russian MiG-31 fighters crossed into its airspace without authorization for about 12 minutes near the island of Vaindloo.
• The foreign ministry summoned Russia’s chargé d’affaires to lodge a formal protest over the incursion.
• The defence minister called the episode “brutality without precedent,” and Ohtuleht reported it was the fourth Estonian airspace violation this year.
• Italian F-35s intercepted the jets, according to Politico, which cited unnamed sources and described the aircraft as Kinzhal-capable.
• Postimees reported the planes flew without filed flight plans and with radios off, and EU’s Kaja Kallas condemned the breach as an extremely dangerous provocation.