Heading towards Kaliningrad over the neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu’s plane got accompanied by NATO fighters that kept a distance of 2 kilometers from his aircraft. <br /><br />The NATO jets did not approach the minister’s plane, which was escorted by several Su-27 fighter jets, according to Russian correspondents, who were on the same aircraft. Reporters identified the planes as Eurofighter Typhoons, multirole fighters designed for NATO. <br /><br />READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/78e8 <br /><br />RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air<br /><br />Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday<br /><br />Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews<br />Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com<br />Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt<br />Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT<br />Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv<br /><br />RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.
