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NATO intercepted at least 19 Russian aircraft flying far outside Russia's airspace today, worrying the organization's officials.

"These sizable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European airspace," NATO said in a statement released this afternoon.

The Russian fighter jets and bombers were seen flying in three different regions. The intercepts came a week after widespread reports that a Russian submarine may have been spotted off the coast of Sweden.

The North Sea and Atlantic Ocean had the largest fleet of Russian aircraft activity, with eight planes detected by NATO radar flying in formation from Russian airspace toward the Norwegian Sea and into international airspace this afternoon.

NATO allies, which continually watch over partner airspace, saw six of the planes turn back towards northern Russia after Norwegian Air Force F-16s intercepted the planes. The remaining two Russian planes, both Tu-95 Bear H bombers, continued to fly above the Norwegian coastline, prompting NATO planes stationed in the United Kingdom to track them.

The NATO statement reported that those two Russian bombers were en route back to their homeland.

"Scrambles and intercepts are standard procedure when an unknown aircraft approaches NATO airspace," the NATO release said. "However, such flights pose a potential risk to civil aviation given that the Russian military often do not file flight plans, or use their on-board transponders."

Four other Russian aircraft -- two fighter jets and two bombers -- were spotted flying over the Black Sea, prompting Turkish Air Force jets to scramble to track them.

There were at least seven other Russian planes intercepted over the Baltic Sea today, as well, though NATO would not indicate exactly how many. Baltic Air Policing Mission planes were sent into the air and the Russian aircraft headed back to their own airspace.

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MOSCOW NATO said Wednesday that it had intercepted a large number of Russian aircraft flying close to European airspace in the past two days, in an unusual series of incidents that brought Russian bombers as far afield as Portugal.

The aircraft at least 19 in all offered reminders of Russian air power at a time of the worst relations between the West and Russia since the Cold War. Russian military aircraft have significantly increased their activity in Europe since the conflict in Ukraine began earlier this year, with NATO scrambling to intercept aircraft more than 100 times in 2014. But a NATO official said the scale of the latest incidents was the most provocative this year.

Over the Atlantic Ocean and the North, Black and Baltic seas, Russian bombers, fighter jets and tanker aircraft were detected flying in international airspace, NATO said. There were no incursions into national airspace, a violation of sovereignty that would have significantly amplified the seriousness of the four incidents, three of which took place on Wednesday.

Were raising it as an unusual level of activity, said Lt. Col. Jay Janzen, a spokesman for NATOs military command in Mons, Belgium. The flights weve seen in the last 24 hours, the size of those flights and some of the flight plans are definitely unusual.

U.S. officials regard the flights as a show of force by the Putin government. Its concerning because its moving in the wrong direction, said one U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the air activity publicly. Its not helping to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine. Its not helping to improve relations between NATO and Russia. Its not helping anybody.

Smaller-scale incidents have also increased this year, approximately tripling from the same period in 2013, Janzen said.

In at least one of the four incidents, the aircraft had switched off their transponders and had not filed flight plans with civilian air traffic controllers. That means that civilian air traffic control cannot track them, potentially creating a risk for civilian planes.

That incident took place around 3:00 a.m. in Western Europe on Wednesday, when four Tu-95 long-range strategic nuclear bombers and four Il-78 tanker aircraft flew over the Norwegian Sea. Norwegian F-16 fighter jets scrambled to intercept them. Six of the planes returned to Russia, but two of the bombers skirted the Norwegian coast, flew past Britain sending Typhoon fighter jets to scramble in response and then finally looped west of Spain and Portugal, attracting Portuguese F-16s. Then the two bombers appeared to return to Russia, Janzen said.

The Tu-95 bombers are not commonly seen close to Europe, Janzen said. Nor are the MiG-31 fighter jets that were intercepted along with other aircraft above the Baltic Sea in two separate incidents Tuesday and Wednesday. It was not immediately clear whether the two incidents above the Baltic represented the same group of seven planes entering and departing a Russian military base at Kaliningrad.

There was no immediate reaction from the Russian government.

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Other Eastern European countries, such as Bulgaria, were also targeted, as well as NATO and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly poured scorn on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). According to FireEye, hacking NATO could give Moscow, "sensitive tactical and strategic intelligence concerning regional military capabilities and relationships".

The report comes amid heightened tension between the West and Russia, following Moscow's annexation of Crimea in March. The finger has been pointed at Russia for several widely reported cyberattacks, including a breach at JPMorgan that compromised the accounts of 76 million households and seven million small businesses.

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In addition, cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners has recently reported that Russian hackers exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows to spy on computers used by Nato and other western governments.

Attacks likely successful

FireEye said that the sophistication of the attacks detailed in its report meant that they were likely to have proved successful in the majority of cases.

"I think you would be nave to assume they haven't been successful. For the large percentage of hacks they are successful, because we know existing security architecture is insufficient in stopping these things," Jason Steer, director of technology strategy at FireEye, told CNBC by phone.

Identifying where hackers are from can be difficult because of clever movement of data and deliberately misleading use of language in malware. Russia is particular hard to pin down due to its hackers covert movements in cyberspace, said Steer.

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Published October 28, 2014

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a policy speech entitled "A unique Alliance with a clear course" at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)(The Associated Press)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a policy speech entitled "A unique Alliance with a clear course" at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)(The Associated Press)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a policy speech entitled "A unique Alliance with a clear course" at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)(The Associated Press)

BRUSSELS NATO's new secretary general says only a strong Western alliance can negotiate better ties with Russia.

Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that his experience as Norway's prime minister was that robust defense capabilities and a strong trans-Atlantic bond were fundamental to bring about constructive relations with Russia.

In his first policy speech since taking office Oct. 1, Stoltenberg said there was no contradiction between wanting to keep NATO strong and continuing to attempt to engage with the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"NATO is here to say. Russia is here to say. So we're going to have some kind of relationship," Stoltenberg said. The question, he said, is "what kind."

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STUTTGART, Germany As NATOs first secretary-general to hail from a country that shares a border with Russia, Jens Stoltenberg says todays tensions with Moscow conjure memories from a Cold War childhood when NATO was there to protect us.

I remember visiting that border when it was completely closed back in the days of the Soviet Union. When looking across was like staring into something dark and scary, Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian prime minister now heading up the 28-nation alliance, said on Tuesday.

Nowadays, there is a visa-free zone between Norway and Russia, where hundreds of thousands of people cross the border each year. But Russias moves around Ukraine during the past year have threatened such progress and brought about echoes from the past, which NATO must be prepared to counter, Stoltenberg said during a speech at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels.

NATOs new top official laid out his priorities during his first major policy speech since assuming leadership of the 28-nation alliance earlier this month. Stoltenberg took up his post from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, his predecessor as the military alliances secretary-general who had been criticized by some NATO allies for his sharp comments about Moscows policies in Ukraine.

Much of Stoltenbergs speech also focused on Russia.

NATO does not seek confrontation with Russia. And nobody wants a new Cold War, 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, he said. But we cannot and will not compromise on the principles on which our alliance and the security of Europe and North America rest. This is my firm conviction.

Going forward, Stoltenberg said his main goals will be pushing forward with a new action plan that aims to elevate NATOs overall state of readiness through the placement of equipment at strategic staging bases in eastern Europe, a new rapid-reaction force and a heightened presence of rotational forces on NATOs eastern frontier.

This is the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War, Stoltenberg said. We are making our forces more agile. And able to deploy quickly whenever threats emerge. From any direction.

The size and shape of NATOs new spearhead reaction force, expected to be around 4,000 troops, will be decided when defense ministers meet in February.

At the same time, Stoltenberg struck a more conciliatory and diplomatic tone than Rasmussen, emphasizing the need to find ways to work with Moscow.

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BRUSSELS--The new civilian head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said the alliance sought a cooperative relationship with Russia, and said the best way to achieve that was to ensure NATO remained strong.

In his first major policy speech since assuming the role of NATO secretary-general on Oct. 1, Jens Stoltenberg said Russia was NATO's biggest neighbor and both were here to stay.

"We simply can't ignore each other. One way or another, we will have a relationship. The question is what kind of relationship," he said.

"NATO continues to aspire to a cooperative relationship with Russia but to get there Russia would need to want it and to take clear steps to make it possible."

He said the relationship needed to have "greater transparency and predictability" to "make sure that crises don't spiral out of control."

Mr. Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian prime minister, said the opening of Norway's formerly closed border with the Soviet Union had benefited Russians. Russians had gained from the freedom and prosperity that had come from open borders and integration with the rest of the world.

The speech, which followed a fiery condemnation of NATO and U.S. actions last week from Russian President Vladimir Putin, was less combative toward Moscow than statements from Mr. Stoltenberg's predecessor, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

But Mr. Stoltenberg said Russia's actions in Ukraine had severely damaged trust with Moscow and posed a major challenge to alliance security.

NATO needed to remain strong, he said.

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