MOSCOW – A Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepted a U.S. surveillance plane over the Black Sea on Jan. 30, prompting the U.S. State Department to protest the maneuver as “an unsafe interaction.”
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This image released by the US European Command (EUCOM) shows a Russian SU-27 Flanker fighter plane photographed from a US Air Force reconnaissance jet on June 19 over the Baltic Sea.