VLADIMIR Putin's warplanes ignored NATO stealth jets as they stormed into Estonian airspace for 12 minutes in a brazen stunt that’s set Europe on edge.

Russian MiG-31 fighters entered the skies near Vaindloo island between 9.58am and 10.10am on Friday, brushing off warnings from Italian F-35s scrambled out of Estonia’s Amari Air Base.

Colonel Ants Kiviselg, commander of Estonia’s Military Intelligence Centre, said: “Russia acknowledged communication from Italian pilots flying F-35 fighter jets, but they apparently ignored it and didn’t actually follow the signs.

“Why they didn’t do it, that’s a question for the Russian pilots.”

He added the jets “must have known that they are in [Estonian] airspace.”

Tallinn branded the incursion “unprecedentedly brazen” — the fourth this year — and

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