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On October 18, the Russian news agency TASS quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov bemoaning the lack of dialogue between Russia and NATO, which he suggested was responsible for an increase in “unintended incidents.” As an example of these incidents, he cited the instance when a Spanish Eurofighter accidentally fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile during a NATO exercise over Estonia. He rhetorically asked what might have happened had the missile landed in Russian territory, stating that it was “very close.”

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