“The foreign MINISTRY in meeting with Russian officials after the violation”
“During the morning a meeting took place with a Russian representative on the state department by reason of the violation of Russian fighter aircraft made by Swedish airspace two weeks ago. The meeting took place at the administrative level, which Aftonbladet was the first to report on.”
” I can confirm that the meeting took place earlier in the day. I have no details to give about the meeting itself, it can jan say is that it took place with a representative from the Russian embassy, at the technical level, ” says Rasmus Eljanskog, presskommunikatör at UD, TT.”
TT: It is not about the ambassador?”
“the state Department has previously announced that it summoned the Russian representative after the violation on January 19, when a reconnaissance aircraft and two warplanes flew over Blekinge, south of Karlshamn, without permission.”
“the foreign MINISTRY does not want to go into what the outcome of the meeting was.”
“– the Purpose of the meeting was to denounce the incident but what was said, there is no details I can share, ” says Rasmus Eljanskog.”
“the Russian department of defense, in turn, claimed that a Swedish spaningsflyg, with the transponder turned off, would have flown in international airspace over the Baltic sea in the direction of the Russian border, but that it should have been averted by Russian fighter jets.”
