HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had summoned Russia’s top diplomat to Helsinki over a suspected June 10 violation of Finnish airspace, the second such event in under three weeks. NATO member Finland on Tuesday said it believed a Russian military aircraft entered its airspace off the coast of Porvoo in the […]
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Finland again summons Russian diplomat over a suspected airspace violation
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had summoned Russia’s top diplomat to Helsinki over a suspected June 10 violation of Finnish airspace, the second such event in under three weeks.
NATO member Finland on Tuesday said it believed a Russian military aircraft entered its airspace off the coast of Porvoo in the southern part of the Nordic country, and that the Finnish Border Guard was investigating the incident.
“The foreign ministry has invited Russia’s acting head of mission to speak on the issue today,” the Finnish ministry said in a statement to Reuters.
(Reporting by Essi Lehto, editing by Terje Solsvik and Louise Rasmussen)