From October 28-31, Russian Air Force aircraft performed several combat training sorties, navigation training missions and ferry flights over the Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. At 14.30hrs on October 28, NATO early warning radars detected and tracked seven Russian aircraft flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea. The aircraft comprised two MiG-31s and a Su-27 of the 6989th Aviation Base at Khotilovo, accompanied by two Su-24M2s and two Su-34s of the 7000th Aviation Base at Voronezh but temporarily based at Lipetsk.
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