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British fighter jets interrupted the path of a Russian maritime patrol aircraft over the Black Sea in the second such recent incident, Britain’s defence ministry said, writes William Schomberg.

The RAF Typhoons scrambled from Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania on Thursday in response to a Russian Be-12 plane which was heading southwest over the Black Sea from Crimea, the ministry said.

The Royal Air Force has deployed Typhoons to the Baltic States in recent years as part of a mission to protect NATO airspace in the region.

Britain’s Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Mark Lancaster, spoke about “an ever more assertive Russia” in a speech in London in July.

He said the RAF has had to intercept Russian military aircraft more than 80 times over the last decade.

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