Estonia condemns the “people’s” violation of air space by Russian military aircraft

Russian military aircraft have violated Estonian airspace, the Foreign Ministry in Tallinn said, condemning the invasion of “cheeky.”

It says that three Russian Mig-31 fighters “entered the Estonian airspace without permission and stayed there for a total of 12 minutes” on Friday over the bay of Finland.

The ministry said it was calling for Russian cutting “to protest” while EU’s best diplomat, Kaja Callas, described the invasion as “extremely dangerous provocation”.

The Estonian media reported that the Russian jets had excluded their transponders in the airspace of a NATO member.

The Russian military has not publicly commented on the issue.

In a statement, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkt said the invasion of Friday was “unprecedented brazen”.

He continued: “The increasing border testing and the growing aggression of Russia must be met with a rapid increase in political and economic pressure.”

The minister added that Russia had already violated Estonia’s airspace four times in 2025.

Tensions have escalated between NATO and Russia’s military alliance since Moscow began a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Last week, Poland and Romania – both NATO members – said Russian drones were breaking their airspace.

Poland the military said they had removed at least three Russian drones, With Prime Minister Donald Tusk, he said 19 drones were enrolled in Polish airspace.

Russia insisted that the incident was not intentional and the Ministry of Defense stated that there were no “plans” to direct facilities on Polish soil.

Belarus, a close Russian ally, said the drones that have entered the Polish airspace are an incident after their navigation systems are stuck.

A few days later, Romania’s Defense Ministry said it had discovered a Russian drone When two F-16 aircraft watched the country’s border with Ukraine, after “Russian air attacks against the Ukrainian infrastructure of the Danube (River)”.

The ministry said the drone later disappeared from the radar.

Russia has not commented on the reported invasion of Romanian airspace.