MOSCOW, July 21. /TASS/. A NATO Bombardier Challenger 650 Artemis II reconnaissance and target acquisition aircraft is navigating in the area of Russia’s Kaliningrad Region, a source in the EU air traffic control services told TASS.
"About an hour and a half ago, a NATO reconnaissance aircraft took off from an airfield in Constanta, Romania, where it has been basing in recent months, and is currently performing a flight in the area of the Kaliningrad Region at an altitude of about 10 km," the source said. He noted that the aircraft first flew along the Russian region’s border with Poland, after which navigated in the area of the Kaliningrad Region’s eastern and northern borders.
The aircraft is using the Polish and Lithuanian airspace. The source also recalled that the Bombardier Challenger 650 Artemis II aircraft last time appeared in the area of the Kaliningrad Region on July 7-8, accompanied at some sections of the route by a British Air Force Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint electronic reconnaissance aircraft, which took off from RAF Waddington specifically for this purpose. They navigated through the airspace of Lithuania and Poland, as well as areas over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
