MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. Russian radars tracked 30 foreign aircraft that conducted air reconnaissance near Russia’s state borders over the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper reported on Friday.

The paper’s infographics show that 27 foreign spy planes and three drones conducted air reconnaissance along Russia’s state borders in the past week.

The flights by foreign spy aircraft were tracked by Russian radar stations. No violations of the Russian state border were allowed, according to the newspaper, which cited information from the Russian Defense Ministry.

Also, one MiG-31 fighter jet was repaired and delivered to the troops under the defense procurement plan, the infographics show.

Last month, Aerospace Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Andrei Yudin reported that Russian air defense quick reaction alert forces detected and intercepted over 1,300 foreign spy planes in 2020.

According to Yudin, the Russian fighter aircraft from air defense quick reaction alert forces were scrambled over 170 times in 2020 to intercept foreign planes near Russia’s borders.