Estonia protests against Russian warplane "violating airspace" and requests NATO consultations.
On the 19th, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the acting Russian ambassador to Estonia to protest against the Russian fighter jets "violating Estonian airspace" on the same day and submitted a note of protest. The Estonian Foreign Ministry issued a news release on the same day, saying that the "violation" incident occurred in the airspace over the Gulf of Finland, with "three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entering Estonian airspace without permission and remaining for 12 minutes." Estonia shares a border with Russia, and both countries are coastal countries along the Gulf of Finland.
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