South Korea: Russia says airspace intrusion was not intentional

Russia has said a military jet’s intrusion into South Korean territorial airspace was not intentional.

South Korea says a Russian military official expressed “deep regret” to its defence ministry.

On Tuesday, Seoul said a Russian warplane had twice violated its territorial airspace.

But the Russian defence ministry had earlier furiously denied this.

Meanwhile South Korea’s blue house said in a briefing that Russia had now said the violation was unintended and that it would immediately launch an investigation into the case.