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Es­to­nia sum­moned a Russ­ian diplo­mat to protest af­ter three Russ­ian fight­er air­craft en­tered its air­space with­out per­mis­sion Fri­day and stayed there for 12 min­utes, the For­eign Min­istry said, just over a week af­ter NA­TO planes downed Russ­ian drones over Poland and height­ened fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over.

For­eign Min­is­ter Mar­gus Tsakhna said that Rus­sia vi­o­lat­ed Es­ton­ian air­space four times this year “but to­day’s in­cur­sion, in­volv­ing three fight­er air­craft en­ter­ing our air­space, is un­prece­dent­ed­ly brazen.”

Russ­ian of­fi­cials did not im­me­di­ate­ly com­ment.