British spy planes flew an ‘extraordinary’ month-long mission to monitor Russia after Vladimir Putin threatened to nuke Europe, the Daily Mail can reveal.
RAF commanders dispatched the UK’s two operational Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft 17 times in October to monitor Russian military activity.
The highly sophisticated jets repeatedly circled Kaliningrad, Russia’s secretive military exclave wedged between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea.
The intelligence planes, built to soak up classified radio and electronic emissions, also carried out back-to-back patrols of Nato‘s Baltic borders with Russia and Belarus.
‘It is extraordinary that that level of activity was aimed over that period of time,’ a senior
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