South Korean defense and foreign offices summoned Russian officials after its air force were dispatched to warn Russian bombers of entering its air defense zone. Moscow says the planes were flying over the international waters.
Russia’s defense ministry confirmed that South Korean planes escorted two Tu-95MS strategic bombers and Su-35S aircraft as they conducted a regular flight over “neutral waters” of the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan and the western part of the Pacific Ocean. At various stages of the route the Russian warplanes were escorted by South Korean F-15 and F-16 fighter jets and Japanese F-2A war planes, according to the statement.
South Korea says two Russian military planes entered four times its air defense identification zone (KADIZ) over the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan and flew away following warnings on Friday afternoon.
