28 Mar 2016 15:00

Sukhoi Su-27s accompany Shoigu's plane bound for Kaliningrad over Baltic Sea neutral waters

KALININGRAD. March 28 (Interfax) - Russian Sukhoi Su-27 jets accompanied the plane of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu bound for Kaliningrad on its flight above neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, an Interfax correspondent has reported from the location.

NATO Eurofighter aircraft were flying at a distance of approximately two kilometers. They did not approach the defense minister's plane.

Shoigu came to the Kaliningrad region on Monday to check combat training and construction of training and social infrastructures in military units and formations of the Russian forces deployed in the region.