The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied Estonia’s accusations that Russian aircraft violated the country’s airspace. Estonia and NATO’s PositionEstonian officials, however, claim that three Russian jets intruded into their airspace over the Gulf of Finland, remaining there for 12 minutes. According to Reuters, Sweden’s Armed Forces provided photographs of Russian fighter jets over the Baltic Sea, said to have been taken after the planes exited Estonian airspace. Italian F-35 fighter jets were scrambled twelve minutes later, according to the same report. Diplomatic ConsequencesThe Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Russian chargé d’affaires in response to the alleged incursion, formally accusing Moscow of violating Estonia’s sovereignty.