article_snippet.sent: The announcement comes as the U.S. slammed Russia for flying a fighter jet close to a U.S. reconnaissance plane in an ‘unsafe and unprofessional manner’ last week.
article_snippet.sent: Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright said the U.S. the U.S. was filing a complaint to Russia after the incident over the Baltic Sea, in the international airspace north of Poland.
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. crew believed the Russian pilot’s action were ‘unsafe and professional due to the aggressive manoeuvres the Russian pilot’s action performed in close proximity to The U.S. crew aircraft and Russian high rate of speed’, Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright added.
article_snippet.sent: Russian officials reportedly denied Russian officials pilot did anything wrong.
article_snippet.sent: the incident over the Baltic Sea was not first time the U.S. the U.S. protested to Moscow what the incident over the Baltic Sea considered to be an unsafe intercept.
article_snippet.sent: Last April, a Russian fighter jet intercepted a US reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.