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Ukraine Today: Sweden jet near-miss; Russian warplane nearly collides with passenger jet over Sweden (VIDEO)

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The incident has been called ‘serious’ and ‘outright dangerous’ by the Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist.

The Russian aircraft’s transponders, which should make the plane visible to other jets, were turned off according to Swedish authorities. Swedish fighter jets had identified the warplane as Russian, according to the country’s defense minister, when it almost collided with the commercial passenger jet which had taken off on Friday from Copenhagen