Seoul, July 24: Russia revealed to South Korea on Tuesday a hardware breakdown drove its military fighter jet into an unintended region, South Korean state-run Yonhap news organization detailed, referring to the South Korean presidential office.
A Russian military official told a South Korean safeguard official the Russian military plane, at which Seoul discharged warning shots for illegally crossing into South Korean airspace, seemed to have “entered an area that was not planned due to device malfunction”, said Yoon Do-han, a top official in the South Korean presidential office.
Russia’s defence service would quickly launch a probe and make every single fundamental walk, Moscow’s military officier told South Korea, Yoon stated, according to Reuters news reports.
South Korean senior security advisor has on Tuesday lodged a strong protest with Moscow after its Russian military fighter jet breached South Korea’s airspace, said Seoul’s presidential office, adding it will soon take stern action if incident repeats.
However, the Russian ministry of defence on Tuesday denied any wrongdoing and that its strategic bombers had breached Seoul’s airspace, according to Reuters.
It also accused South Korea’s aircraft of carrying out menacing maneuvers that appeared threatening its plane, according to RIA news agency.
In Seoul, defence ministers had said South Korea’s Air Force had launched hundreds of warning shots at an aircraft owned to the Russian military that had illegally on Tuesday crossed into South Korean airspace.
But however, Russian defence military dismissed those allegations, saying Seoul’s jet pilots hadn’t communicated with Moscow’s bombers.
The ministry claimed it was not the very first time when South Korea’s pilots had meddled with a Russian military jet over waters.