Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the shooting down of an unidentified object over the country’s airspace.
Source: Trudeau on Twitter
Direct speech: “I ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace.”
Details: Trudeau noted that American and Canadian planes were scrambled into the air.
“An American F-22 successfully fired at the object,” the Canadian prime minister said.
In addition, he wrote that he had a conversation about this with US President Joe Biden.
“I spoke with President Biden. The Canadian Forces will analyze the wreckage of the site. Thanks to NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command – ed.) for monitoring,” Trudeau said in a tweet.
Recall: The US military on Friday tracked and eventually shot down an unknown object flying at high altitude in airspace near the Alaska region.
background:
- On February 3, the Pentagon reported that over the territory of the United States was recorded balloon movement with surveillance equipment – “launched, most likely by the PRC.”
- US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken postponed trip to China after a Chinese balloon was discovered flying over sensitive targets in the western United States.
- China said that the US used this incident for PR, and Blinken was not even going to go to them.
- On February 4th, the Pentagon announced that another Chinese spy balloon was flying over Latin America.
