At 14 o’clock on Monday summoned Russian ambassador Victor Tatarintsev submitted to the Department of state in order to receive a diplomatic mark.
an incident over the Baltic sea on Tuesday last week, when a Russian fighter jet flew less than 20 metres from a obestyckat Swedish reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace.
the Swedish armed Forces describes the event as ”remarkable”. Defense minister Peter Hultqvist called the actions inappropriate and provocative and talked about a Russian ”dominansbeteende”.
the Department of state came for its part, concluded that the Russian plane was acting ”unreasonably and unprofessionally in a way that endangers the safety of the flight” and decided at the weekend that it would recall the Russian ambassador.
the head of the foreign MINISTRY’s unit for european security policy Julius Liljeström.
“He said that Sweden takes a serious view of the incident,” says William Rundquist, communications officer at the Swedish foreign MINISTRY’s press service.
– With this, Sweden has clearly highlighted against the Russian action.
the foreign MINISTRY does not comment on how the Russian ambassador responded on the mark.
for a year and a half ago was Tatarintsev strongly critical of the fact that the Swedish plane flew a few miles from the coast of Russia. A similar incident had just taken place in international airspace.
” What the hell do the Swedish aircraft four miles from Kaliningrad? said the Russian ambassador.
the DN has sought Viktor Tatarintsev.
