Kerry will discuss with Lavrov the incident with the Su-24 in the Baltic Sea

US Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the April 12 incident in the Baltic Sea involving the US Navy destroyer Donald Cook and Russian Su-24 bombers. This was stated by State Department spokesman John Kirby.

“The Secretary of State was alarmed by the images and reports of these overflights of the Donald Cook,” he said.

Kerry himself called the actions of Russian aviation "reckless, provocative and dangerous" and noted that the rules for the use of weapons allow shooting down an aircraft in such situations. “People need to understand that this is serious and that the US will not be intimidated on the high seas,” the US Secretary of State said.

• Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that the flight of Russian Su-24s near the American destroyer was safe. “The reason for such a painful reaction of our American colleagues, frankly, is incomprehensible,” said a representative of the military department.
• According to the US European Command, on April 11 and 12, Russian Su-24 bombers and a Ka-27 helicopter flew in close proximity to the US destroyer Donald Cook in the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The statement emphasized that a number of maneuvers were unsafe.