NATO’s spy planes intensify flights over Black Sea threefold – Russian commander
The aircraft performed 270 reconnaissance flights in 2019, about 530 in 2020 and over 560 since the start of this year in the southern area of responsibility, Commander of the Russian Southern Military District’s 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army Nikolai Gostev informed

“NATO countries have been displaying a genuine interest in the Russian southern borders lately,” the commander said in an interview with the Southern Russia Military Bulletin newspaper.

French warplanes and also tactical aircraft of the NATO allied forces joined the flights of US spy planes and drones, he said.