NATO planes conduct reconnaissance of the occupied Crimea and eastern regions of Ukraine

Three strategic NATO intelligence officers worked today over the Black Sea and the eastern regions of Ukraine.

At six o’clock in the morning, an American reconnaissance aircraft Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint took off from the Haina airbase on the island of Cyprus. At about 8:00, entering the sky over the Black Sea, the plane began monitoring the occupied Crimea.

In the afternoon, it was replaced by the British reconnaissance aircraft Boeing RC-135E, which continues its reconnaissance flight after dark.

The third scout is now scanning the eastern regions of Ukraine. For several hours, the American Boeing E-8C control and target designation aircraft has been hanging in the Kharkiv-Dnepr-Donetsk triangle.