Moscow has responded more aggressively to the exercises conducted by the US military in recent months, which insists that its flights are conducted in international waters.
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Russia said on Sunday it had dispatched fighter jets to prevent two U.S. strategic bombers from crossing its border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The U.S. military regularly conducts flights over international waters, operations it says are conducted in neutral airspace and in accordance with international law.
But Moscow has responded more aggressively to the exercises in recent months, warning in June that U.S. drone flights over the Black Sea risked leading to a military clash. “direct”.
In June, Moscow accused the United States of using its reconnaissance drone flights over the neutral waters of the Black Sea to help Ukraine strike the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula. It said the flights increased the risk of a “direct confrontation” between NATO and Russia, and that its army had been instructed to prepare a “operational response”.
