OSLO, Sept 23, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Norway's government said Tuesday that Russia 
had violated Norwegian airspace three times this year, branding the incidents 
"not acceptable".

It said a Russian SU-24 fighter jet entered Norwegian airspace for four 
minutes on April 25, followed by a L410 Turbolet transport aircraft that 
stayed for three minutes on July 24.

Most recently, on August 18, an SU-33 fighter jet was in Norwegian airspace 
for a minute.

"Russia has violated Norwegian airspace on three occasions this spring and 
summer," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said in a statement.

"We cannot determine whether this was done intentionally or due to navigation 
errors. Regardless of the cause, this is not acceptable," Store said.

"The events in Norway are smaller in scale than the violations against 
Estonia, Poland, and Romania, in terms of both location and duration," he 
added.

"Nevertheless, these are events we take very seriously."

A member of NATO, Norway is often described as the "eyes and ears" of the 
transatlantic defence alliance in the far north, where it shares a maritime 
border and a 198-kilometre (132-mile) land border with Russia.