President #Putin's plane avoiding #Baltic airspace on way from #Moscow to #G20Summit in #Hamburg: https://t.co/pa9HiKnk1W http://pic.twitter.com/PYO4i0G6cE— VykintasPugačiauskas (@pugaciauskas) July 7, 2017
Sputnik: Here's Why Putin's Plane Skirted NATO's Eastern Flank on Approach to G20 Summit
The aircraft carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany made almost a 500 km detour over Finland and the Baltic Sea to avoid flying over NATO's Eastern flank, evading Polish and the Baltic nations' air space to make it to its destination. Russian observers pondered the most likely reason for the maneuver.
Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 has shown that the Russian presidential Il-96-300PU flying from Moscow to Hamburg Thursday deviated from a possible direct route over Belarusian and Polish territory, instead flying over the Baltic Sea and non-NATO states Finland and Sweden before entering Danish and German airspace.
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WNU Editor: On this particular trip .... it looks like the people responsible for Russian President Putin's security got spooked on what may have been happening in Poland, and decided to take an alternative route. I also suspect that they wanted to avoid something like this over Polish airspace .... Russian Su-27 Warns Off NATO F-16 As It Approached Russian Defense Minister's Plane Over The Baltic Sea (Video) (June 21, 2017).
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