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Russia threatened to shoot down French patrol aircraft over the Black Sea. Such a statement was interpreted by France as a “particularly aggressive” Moscow’s position, according to SkyNews. French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu called the threats directed at aircraft patrolling international airspace last month a “particularly aggressive” posture from Moscow. According to him, this behavior resembles the Soviet Union’s behavior during the Cold War. “A month ago, to give you a very concrete example, a Russian air traffic control system threatened to shoot down French aircraft in the Black S…

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