British strategic reconnaissance aircraft Boeing RC-135W approached Crimea
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British strategic reconnaissance aircraft entered Black Sea airspace. This is evidenced by data from the aviation monitoring website Flightradar.
An electronic reconnaissance aircraft Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain entered the Black Sea region and began monitoring the activity of the Russian armed forces in the Crimea and the Black Sea.
Judging by the map of movements of a NATO military aircraft, having taken off from Lakenheath Air Force Base and passing over Europe, it entered the airspace of Ukraine from the northwest, flew over the central part of the country, then over the Odessa region. After that, the reconnaissance board continued to move south, then approached the southern border of the territorial waters of Russia south of the Crimea and is now located near the Kerch Strait.
On December 11, a similar US Air Force aircraft carried out electronic reconnaissance activities near Donbass. Close to the contact line in Donbass, the US Air Force reconnaissance plane turned south, after which it flew west along the Russian borders in Crimea and the Black Sea coast.
On December 7, a US Air Force electronic reconnaissance aircraft Bombardier Challenger 605 was spotted over the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea. He took off from the airport of the Romanian city of Constanta named after Mikhail Kogalniceanu. At 9:50 Moscow time, the plane flew near the peninsula.
