South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone

South Korea's military claimed it scrambled fighter jets as two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defence zone on Wednesday.

The Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly entered and left the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) off South Korea's southern and northeast coasts starting at around 5:50 a.m. (2050 GMT Tuesday), Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said as reported by Reuters.

5:48 am: 2 Chinese H-6 bombers entered KADIZ, left 06:13
6:44 am: re-entered, left 07:07

12:18 pm: 2 Chinese H-6 bombers, 4 Russian TU-95 bombers, 2 Russian SU-35 fighters entered KADIZ from 200 km northeast of Ulleungdo and flew southeast of Dokdo. They left at around 12:36

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They re-zapped into the zone hours later from the Sea of Japan, known in Korea as the East Sea, accompanied by the Russian warplanes, including TU-95 bombers and SU-35 fighter jets, the JCS said.

The aircraft did not violate South Korea's airspace, the JCS added.