By Will Stewart for MailOnline
Published: 12:44 BST, 18 June 2019 | Updated: 12:49 BST, 18 June 2019
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The is the moment Moscow claims two Su-27s fighter jets intercepted a US B-52 bomber as it flew towards Crimea.
Russia released footage of its warplanes allegedly heading off the USAF jet, claiming there were two incidents on Monday over the Black and Baltic Seas.
Non-Russian accounts said that one of the B-52s subsequently made an emergency landing at RAF Mildenhall in Britain following an unrelated in-flight emergency.
One of the US strategic bombers was reportedly flying direct for the Crimean peninsula over the Black Sea.
The Kremlin claims their footage shows an American B-52 Stratofortress being intercepted as it approached the Russian border over the Black Sea on Monday
A spokesman for the Russian MOD said the interception had been carried out in strict compliance with international law
Footage from the cockpit of a Russian fighter allegedly showing it tailing a USAF bomber
Russia caused Western outcry by annexing Crimea from Ukraine
