Overview
- South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said two Chinese aircraft and seven Russian planes successively entered the KADIZ at around 10 a.m.
- The Republic of Korea Air Force dispatched fighter jets as a precaution in case of an accidental situation.
- The aircraft did not violate sovereign airspace, and the military said it detected them before they entered the identification zone.
- The planes, including bombers and fighters, intermittently moved in and out over waters east and south of the peninsula for about an hour before retreating.
- Such entries typically occur once or twice a year during China–Russia exercises without prior notice, with the last similar case involving 11 planes in November last year.