Polish Air Forces intercepted Russian SU-24 aircraft, minister says

PHOTO CAPTION: Illustrative photo — An U.S. Navy picture shows what appears to be a Russian Sukhoi SU-24 attack aircraft flying over the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea, 2016. US Navy/Handout via Reuters

WARSAW - A Russian SU-24 aircraft was performing dangerous manoeuvres on Thursday evening and was intercepted by Polish Air Forces, Minister of National Defence Wladysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Friday, without giving further details.

He added that the order to intercept the aircraft was issued by the joint operational command for NATO allied forces in Europe and the Polish jets located the aircraft, intercepted it and effectively deterred it.

(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Aidan Lewis)

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