NATO says doing its best to stop Russian warplanes from entering members' air space
BRUSSELS/TBILISI. Nov 17 (Interfax) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday claimed there had been increasingly frequent attempts by Russian warplanes to enter the air space of NATO member countries and that the North Atlantic alliance had been doing everything possible to prevent them from doing so.
NATO has been detecting Russian aircraft and giving them warnings when they were approaching the borders of NATO countries. Moreover, NATO aircraft have been patrolling Eastern European member countries' air space more intensively, Stoltenberg said at a joint news conference in Brussels with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili shown live by Georgian television.
Stoltenberg said NATO aircraft had intercepted about 100 Russian warplanes in 2014 or three times as many as they did last year.
