Overview
- Lithuania says a Su-30 fighter and Il-78 tanker crossed about 700 meters into its airspace near Kybartai for roughly 18 seconds from Russia’s Kaliningrad region.
- Spanish Eurofighter Typhoons assigned to NATO’s Baltic Air Policing were scrambled and continue to patrol the area.
- Vilnius summoned Russia’s chargé d’affaires after President Gitanas Nausėda condemned the incursion as a breach of international law.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry denied any violation, asserting the flights stayed over Russian territory and followed planned routes.
- Officials frame the incident within a recent series of airspace and drone episodes on NATO’s eastern flank, with some noting it coincided with new U.S. sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil.