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		</div><p>A Russian fighter jet warded off a Nato military aircraft that approached a passenger plane carrying Russia’s defence minister, according to media reports.</p>
<p>State-owned news channel Rossiya 24 broadcast a video of the in-flight encounter over the Baltic Sea shortly after Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu returned to Moscow from a visit to Russia’s westernmost Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.</p>
<p>The footage showed a Russian Su-27 manoeuvring to drive off an F-18 fighter that flew close to the minister’s plane.</p>
<p>Russian news agencies carried a Nato statement saying warplanes of the Western military alliance moved to identify a Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea without knowing Mr Shoigu was on it.</p>
<p>A similar incident occurred in 2017, when a Polish F-16 fighter approached Mr Shoigu’s plane over the Baltic Sea and a Russian jet pushed it away.</p>
<p>There have been frequent encounters between Russian and NATO aircraft in recent years as both sides have increased military patrols amid growing tensions.</p>
<p>Some of the encounters trigger mutual accusations of pilots performing unsafe manoeuvres.</p>
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