A United States spy plane was caught flying over the Kaliningrad region, a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, amid increased tensions between Washington and Moscow.
The aircraft, identified as RC-135U “Combat Sent”is used to collect strategic information and capable of detecting and analyzing signals from foreign military radars. The flight departed from RAF Mildenhall, in the United Kingdom, and lasted just over seven hours, according to website records FlightRadar24.
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The objective of the mission, carried out on October 7, has not been confirmed, but this type of operation is often associated with surveillance and monitoring of military activities. The same plane had already taken a similar route earlier this month, while drones were seen over Germany in the same period, raising speculation about increased Western intelligence activity in the region.
The episode occurs in a context of heightened tensions in European airspace. In recent weeks, Russian fighter jets and drones have been accused of violating the airspace of NATO countries such as Estonia, Poland and Romania. The alliance classified these actions as “irresponsible” and reinforced that any attack on one of its members would be treated as collective aggression, in accordance with Article 5 of the treaty. Meanwhile, the debate over Ukraine’s entry into NATO continues to rage due to the ongoing war.
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US Air Forces’ electronic recon aircraft RC-135U circles near Russia’s Kaliningrad
After the short ‘spy’ flight, it returned to UK’s RAF Mildenhall air base pic.twitter.com/A9OmVaMAHw
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