Entry into the South Korea Defense area occurred during maneuvers and Russian pilots had no intention of violating the Asian country’s airspace, the seoul military added, added
Several Russian military aircraft have briefly entered the South Korea Air Defense Identification Zone, during maneuvers this Sornado, leading the Asian country to send fighters in response.
South Korea’s joint staff said that an unspecified number of Russian military aircraft entered the Identification Zone over the waters of the Japan Sea around 09:20 (00:20 in Lisbon), before leaving the east and northeast of the area.
Russian aircraft did not invade South Korean airspace, added to the South Korean army in a statement, which detected the aircraft before entering the identification zone and sent several fighters to respond to the situation.
Entry into the South Korea defense area occurred during maneuvers and Russian pilots had no intention of violating the Asian country’s airspace, the military from Seoul added.
An air defense identification zone is not part of a country’s territorial airspace, but an additional perimeter within which air traffic is monitored by the armed forces to provide extra reaction time for a hostile maneuver or to avoid accidental collisions.
In November, Russia warned South Korea that the use of weapons provided by Seoul to Ukraine to “kill Russian citizens will definitely destroy” relations between the two countries.
“Seoul must be aware that the possible use of South Korean weapons to kill Russian citizens will definitely destroy the relations between our countries,” warned Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, in statements to Russian news agency, TASS, quoted by EFE.
Rudenko appealed to North Korea that not to take “reckless measures” and to look at his long -term national interests and not for short -term situations “dictated abroad”.
“As for Seoul to associate its eventual supply of weapons with Kiev with the development of cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang, such an attitude could have very negative consequences. It is obvious that the Ukrainian conflict has nothing to do with the Korean peninsula, ”said the Russian diplomat.
According to Rudenko, if South Korea provides weapons to Kiev, Russia will “naturally respond with all the means they consider necessary”, which “will hardly reinforce the safety of the Republic of Korea itself”.
The deputy minister also accused the South Korean authorities of artificially instigated the controversy over the presence of North Korean soldiers in the zone of “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, in order to “increase military pressure on Pyongyang.”
