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TWO RUSSIAN MILITARY aircraft entered Irish-controlled airspace again.
The Irish Aviation Authority confirmed that the aircraft entered international airspace that is controlled by them.
The IAA confirmed that it monitored the activity of two Russian military aircraft from approximately 3pm to 7pm yesterday.
“The aircraft did not enter Irish sovereign airspace at any time.”
The IAA were not informed in advance. The aircraft operated in North Atlantic airspace and in airspace under the control of the IAA.The aircraft operated within 25 nautical miles of the Irish coast.Irish controlled airspace extends 256 nautical miles off the west coast of Ireland. Irish sovereign airspace extends 12 nautical miles off the Irish coast.
The IAA said the flight posed no safety threat to civil aviation on this occasion.
It is understood that the two aircraft were the same bombers that flew past the Cornwall coast in the UK.
British Forces scrambled its fighter jets to escort the two Russian Bear bombers away from the Cornwall coast.
Footage of of the incident was reportedly shown on Russian television:
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he suspected that Russia was “trying to make a point” and that he would not dignify it with a response.
This is not the first time Russian aircraft has flown by Ireland.
Russian jets came close to the Irish coastline only last month. While the jets did not enter Irish airspace, they did enter an area controlled by the Irish Aviation Authority.
Speaking about the episode, Minister for Defence Simon Coveney said the government had “expressed real concern” to the Russian authorities.
He said the Russians were told that it was “not acceptable”.
It’s not an acceptable situation and we have let that be known to the Russian authorities and we hope it won’t be happening again.
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Thanks,but no tanks. it’s time to find a political solution.
@Pat Man: I mean, Russian forces don’t seem to be getting the message that they need to go back where they came from to end this. A few shells in their direction may be a further deterrant.
@Paul Cunningham: and a welcome boost for the European defence industry
@Pat Man: What political solution? Russia is attempting to annex huge parts of Ukraine and Ukraine needs the means to stop them from doing so. Russia will not stop. They aren’t interesting in peace.
It’s amazing how absolutely naive people like you are.
@Seán Ó Briain: agreed. Russia will not stop and will not stop at Ukraine.
@Paddy Ryan: but Lavrov claimed that the west is intent on liquidating Russia in a contemporary version of the Holocaust.
Just when you think they can’t get any sicker. I’m reluctant to use the word, but these people are insane. I can’t think of any other way of describing it. Of course, it’s straight out of the Trump playbook: the more outrageous the claim the better.
It’s time to deliver for Ukraine and put an end to Putin’s War of aggression
The cold hard truth is that Ukraine and Russia’s best and brightest young men are dying, thousands of them. Imagine being a mother or a father to a soldier that you haven’t heard from in months. The govt won’t tell you anything. Most likely he is dead.
The leader of Ukraine wants more weapons… for more sons to die. For what? Its time for peace…
@Diarmuid O’Braonáin: One side of the ‘peace argument’ is Ukrainian loss of independence, the extent of which is far from clear, and from that perspective I understand the arms supplies, but things are getting more and more complicated.
The conflict is currently bogged down while Russia seems to be slowly learning from its past mistakes. Ukraine beating Russia has long been the wishful thinking mode, while the realism that conflicts which don’t end in complete victory or defeat tend to end at the negotiating table is still controversial: Russia’s law-of-the-jungle approach is understandably considered not to be allowed to pay off, but there’s a big dilemma looming:
If Ukraine starts doing worse on the battlefield, which it seems to be, the likelihood increases that NATO member states get more and more invlolved, to the point of a direct confrontation with Russia. And the heavy weaponry which would then be required is already limiting the possibilities to now send these to Ukraine (this is what I think is holding back the Germans).
So western leaders are going to be forced one way or another to start thinking seriously how this war can be brought to a conclusion rather than to be allowed to dangerously drag on and on.
@Diarmuid O’Braonáin: Russia is employing criminals. In an army run by criminals. I don’t see how you can say that the brightest and best are dying. They are safe in st Petersburg and Moscow. You can listen to and watch some of them online. Or you could if they didn’t walk away from the interviewers, afraid to answer questions. All it requires for peace is for Russia to withdraw. Or for Russian troops to stop fighting. But then they will probably end up getting shot or beaten to death with sledgehammers by others of russia’s best and brightest. It is easy for us to sit back and watch Ukrainian soldiers fight on. And no doubt there are huge profits being made by the arms industry and so on. But until the Ukrainian army and people decide to stop fighting, who are we to tell them not to?
@Diarmuid O’Braonáin: As I’Ve read elsewhere ‘If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war, if Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine’
Give tanks for the eventual elimination of Putin and his evil deeds..Amen.
Zelensky for man of the year
@Aidy McBride: LOL
We should keep the US out of this and Europe on its own should turn back putin easily. Then the Russian people will turn on their weak leader. Finally Russia can join European prosperity instead of a totalitarian schite show.
A special international dispensation for the execution of Russian war criminals on a pay per view event with the funds raised going to the rebuilding of Ukraine. All children over the age of 12 to watch with a sincere explanation of what these hateful humans have done prior to the drop. Sounds Orwellian? I don’t care. I sincerely want to see putin and lavrov with their tongues lolling. History doesn’t work anymore obviously, time for something slightly more medieval.
@Paul: What about US war criminals? Israeli war criminals?
Go get em!
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