Watch NATO F-18 Fighter Get Chased Away From Russian Defence Minister’s Plane Over Baltic Sea

According to the Russian military, the NATO jet approached the defence minister’s plane over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea.

A NATO F-18 Hornet multirole fighter approached Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu’s plane as it was flying over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, but was warded off by one of two Su-27 fighters accompanying Shoigu’s aircraft, the Russian Defence Ministry has reported.

Shoigu was reportedly flying en route to Moscow from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is surrounded from the south, east and northeast by NATO members Poland and Lithuania.

Amateur footage taken from inside the defence minister’s plane showed the F-18 flying alongside the aircraft, before pulling a hard left banking maneuver as a Su-27 approached from the right. The F-18 is then seen ascending sharply, pulling away from both planes.