“The crash of a Russian Su-27 fighter jet in Lithuania has renewed friction between Russia and its Baltic neighbours.
The plane, carrying at least four missiles, veered out of its air corridor and crashed last week, but the pilot ejected and remains in Lithuanian custody.
Baltic newspapers have been asking whether Nato membership really is protecting them, while Russia has demanded the pilot’s release.
The jet was flying from St Petersburg to Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad when it strayed, violating Lithuania’s airspace. Russia says a technical fault may be behind the crash.
Where was Nato?
The Lithuanian paper Respublika ran scathing criticism of Nato on Monday, arguing that ageing German F4 Phantoms stationed temporarily in Lithuania as part of Nato’s air protection umbrella were inadequate for the task.
Calling Nato’s air protection “a public relations gimmick”, it said the incident clashed with “our euphoric celebration of our admission to Nato” in 2004.
Lithuania has launched a probe into last Thursday’s crash, 190km (120 miles) north-west of Vilnius. It has called for Nato help in examining the black box flight recorder.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4264010.stm
I like the russians, ha ha ha they take it cool, and paranoid Lituanians are just waking up about their Lackeys NATO faith!
i would say to the baltics puppets, pls don’t be feared, if the russians turns to be crazy, that i think they ares far, they would invade you land without need of planes, in 2 hours ! 😮 😮
just to drinks beer, ha ha
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September 21, 2005 at 11:31 pm