South Korea’s military says it scrambled fighter jets as two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defence zone.
Key points:
- The planes did not violate South Korea’s airspace
- Moscow does not recognise South Korea’s air defence zone
- Japan’s Air Self Defence Force also scrambled fighter jets after the Chinese bombers and two Russian drones flew into the Sea of Japan
The two Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly entered and left the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) off South Korea’s southern and north-east coasts starting at around 5:50am on Wednesday local time, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
They re-entered the zone hours later from the Sea of Japan, known in South Korea as the East Sea, together with the Russian warplanes, including TU-95 bombers and SU-35 fighter jets, and left after 18 minutes in the KADIZ, the JCS said.
“Our military dispatched air force…
