Norwegian flags flutter at Karl Johans street in Oslo, Norway May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Norway's government said on Tuesday that Russia has violated Norwegian airspace three times in 2025, adding that it was unclear if this was deliberate or the result of navigation errors.
The incidents, which lasted between one and four minutes, were the first such violations by Russia in more than a decade, the Norwegian government said in a statement.
Two of the incidents, on April 25 and August 18, took place over the Arctic Barents Sea, while the third, on July 24, was over an uninhabited part of Finnmark, Norway's northernmost county which shares a border with Russia.
"We can't determine whether this was done deliberately or whether it was due to navigation errors," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said. "Regardless of the reason, this is not acceptable and we have made that clear to Russian authorities."
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, editing by Terje Solsvik)
