Norway has joined in the condemnation of recent incidents of Russian violation of allied airspaces with the latest being Denmark and at the same time revealed that its airspace was violated three times by Russia over spring and summer this year.
In a statement released after a NATO meeting earlier today, the Norwegian government says that it stands united with fellow allies and condemned Russia's "irresponsible and unaaceptable behaviour on allied territory".
"These incidents are occurring in an already serious security situation," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said.
It then goes further to state that three incidents of Russian incursion into its airspace happened earlier in the year after almost ten years without such incident in Norwegian airspace.
"Two of the incidents occurred over sea areas northeast of Vardø. The third occurred over an uninhabited area along the land border in East Finnmark. The border violations lasted between one and four minutes," Støre said.
The Norwegian government however clarified that it could not determine if the incidents were deliberate or due to navigation errors.
"Regardless of the reason, this is not acceptable and we have made that clear to the Russian authorities," Støre said.
The statement also said that other allied nations previously unreported had also encountered similar incidents in their airspace including Finland, Latvia and Lithuania.
It outlined the incursions as follows:
April 25: A Russian SU-24 fighter jet flew into Norwegian airspace over the waters northeast of Vardø. The aircraft flew through Norwegian airspace for four minutes.
July 24: A Russian L410 Turbolet aircraft flew through Norwegian airspace over an uninhabited area along the border in Eastern Finnmark for three minutes.
August 18: A Russian SU-33 fighter jet flew through Norwegian airspace over the sea areas northeast of Vardø for one minute.
"Even if it was due to navigation errors, as a result of Russia operating with too little margin for error, Russia has a responsibility to act in a way that avoids misunderstandings and mistakes." it said.
However Russia has denied that its planes entered NATO airspace.
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