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Russian Ambassador called for interview: 'It is completely unacceptable' | India | DR A Russian military plane briefly violated Danish airspace near Bornholm on Friday night. Of It is not often that the Danish airspace is violated, but it was nonetheless what happened on Friday night. Here a Russian military aircraft of the type Antonov 30 moved into Denmark's territorial airspace east of. The Russian military aircraft was in the Danish airspace for less than a minute before it flew further into the international and on to the Swedish airspace. While the Russian plane was in the Danish airspace, the plane was flanked by two Danish F16 planes, says Søren Andersen, who is Colonel and head of operations in the Air Force Command. All countries have a territorial airspace. If a military aircraft is to fly in a country's territorial airspace, it must have the law of the land. Outside the territorial airspace, one has the international airspace. Here, military aircraft can fly completely free.- Friday night there was a Russian aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea in international airspace along the border with Sweden, Germany, Poland and Denmark.- We flew next to the Russian aircraft with two F16 aircraft, meanwhile it flew along the Danish airspace border. In this connection, the Russian plane flew into Danish airspace east of. We were on the side of the plane and followed. It lasted less than a minute, and then the plane was gone again, says Søren Andersen. The movements of the Russian military aircraft were detected relatively early in the process via radar. As the Air Force Command is on call 24 hours a day on its fighter planes, this meant that the pilots quickly flew from Skrydstrup Air Base in the opposite direction, says Søren Andersen. . And we had no reason to believe that they would break any rules. For what the Russian planes are doing is by no means unusual. On average, they probably fly some patrol flights a couple of times a month. - What they do is observe us. They follow visually, they look at what we have of ships, and then they probably also have some equipment so that they can listen to us on different channels. Søren Andersen emphasizes that it is always serious when another country - in this case Russia - violates Danish airspace. But if you look at Friday's episode east, it's a different matter. - My professional assessment is that the episode is not serious. It would have been something else if the plane, for example, flew right through. But it is still not right what happened on Friday, he says. According to the head of operations in the Air Force Command, it is only the fifth time that Denmark's territorial airspace has been violated since 2014. Exactly in 2014, a similar aircraft made a violation of the airspace in exactly the same place and in the same way as on Friday. And in 2021, three of the airspace was experienced in one month, where there were Russian fighter planes. But what is the consequence for the countries that violate Denmark's territorial airspace? The short answer is that it is up to the politicians. In the specific case from last Friday, the Air Force Command has written a report on the episode. The report is forwarded to the Defense Operations Center, which then forwards it to the Ministry of Defense. Finally, the report ends with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod has now summoned the Russian ambassador to Denmark for a conversation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday about the situation. The Russian ambassador has been summoned for talks in the Foreign Ministry tomorrow. Another Russian violation of Danish airspace. It is complete and extremely worrying in the current situation. In April, according to Ritzau, an episode also took place between Denmark and Russia. On April 4, a Danish arms ship was flown low by Russian fighter jets. It happened in international.