07.08 Did US �?Violate’ Swedish Airspace While Spying on Russia?

A US Air Force spy plane while on a mission along Russian borders violated the Swedish airspace. Radio VR experts and listeners discuss whether it was accidental and whether further provocations are possible.

Radio VR have an exclusive interview with Johan Backmann, Doctor of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. On our Burning Point program he talked about the latest incident involving a NATO spy plane. A US Air Force spy plane while on a mission along Russian borders violated the Swedish airspace. The Swedish government requested explanations from the US Embassy; however, it did not seem to mind the intrusion very much.

“I don’t believe that the air space of Sweden was violated. I think that there was an agreement between the US and Sweden about kind of a legal violation of the air space. I think that Sweden is giving plenty of aid to the US intelligence against Russia. It is very well known that Sweden was providing the US with the intelligence information about Russia. And it is very likely that Sweden is now cooperating with the US against Russia in this very tense situation, where it is very probable that the US is preparing another provocation in the Baltic Sea against Moscow.”