Russian jet suspected of violating Finnish airspace

Finland said it suspected that a Russian military aircraft had violated Finnish airspace in the Gulf of Finland. The suspected intrusion into Finnish airspace was believed to have occurred Monday morning near the city of Loviisa, located less than 90 kilometres east of the capital Helsinki on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, the Nordic country's Ministry of Defence said in a statement. The incident comes as relations between the neighbouring countries, who share a 1,340-kilometre border, have become increasingly tense after Finland joined NATO last year.