Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been forced to cut his press conference at a NATO airbase in Lithuania short as an alert went off and jets were scrambled to monitor the movements of a Russian military aircraft.
A video of the incident shows pilots rushing to jets parked right behind Sanchez and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda. The delegation had to quickly move the flags and lecterns to clear the way for a NATO fighter jet preparing to taxi for take-off.
A spokesperson for the Lithuanian Army’s joint chiefs of staff later explained that the Spanish jets stationed at the NATO airbase were scrambled to monitor a military jet, which took off from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad without filing a flight plan.
Forsided, 08.07.2021