Britain intercepted Russian aircraft over Baltic Sea in recent days

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said connected Sunday 2 of its combatant jets had intercepted Russian craft implicit the Baltic Sea adjacent to NATO confederation airspace successful abstracted incidents connected Tuesday and Thursday.

The Typhoon fighters were scrambled to intercept a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M "Coot-A" quality craft connected Tuesday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said successful a statement.

Two time later, 2 Typhoons intercepted an chartless craft leaving Kaliningrad aerial space, it said.

Minister for the Armed Forces Luke Pollard said with Russian aggression increasing and information threats connected the rise, Britain was stepping up to reassure its allies, deter adversaries and support its nationalist security.

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There was nary contiguous absorption from Russia.

(Reporting by Paul Sandle; Editing by Toby Chopra and Andrew Cawthorne)