An RAF fighter jet hasintercepted a Russian aircraft in the Baltic Sea in a further indication of simmering tensions between the West and Moscow.
A tweet by the BlueSky account claimed the Typhoon jet was shadowing a TU-214SR bomber – sometimes dubbed “the Doomsday machine”.
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