HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the Russian ambassador to Helsinki to request an explanation regarding a suspected violation of Finnish airspace that occurred on February 7.
The suspected violation occurred over the Gulf of Finland, west of the town of Hanko, at around 5:15 p.m. (1515 GMT), the ministry said.
“The Russian plane is suspected of having flown in Finnish airspace for a few minutes,” it said in a statement.
The Finnish Border Guard agency was investigating the incident and would provide further information as the investigation progressed, the ministry added.
(Reporting by Gwladys Fouche in Oslo and Essi Lehto in Helsinki; editing by Mark Heinrich and Sharon Singleton)
