FIVE Russian fighter jets were caught flying perilously close to Nato airspace after Moscow warned shooting them would lead to all-out war.

The Nato Allied Air Command said it intercepted three MiG-31s, one Su-30 and one Su-35 fighter jets flying in a formation off the coast of Latvia.

Two Hungarian Gripen fighter jets were scrambled to lead an escort mission as part of Nato Baltic Air Policing mission.

After visual identification and escort, the Russian formation turned away, and the Gripens returned to base, it was reported.

It comes just a day after the US and Canada scrambled four F-16 Fighting Falcons, four KC-135 tankers and an E-3 surveillance aircraft to intercept two Russian Tu-95 bombers and two Su-35 jets.

They were detected operating in Alaska’s air defence identification

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