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> Military expert Per Erik Solli with the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs' research group on security and defense says the flight was significant as NATO "Now can use the airspace over mid- and northern Finland to collect information about the Kola-base complex area."

> The aircraft are frequent visitors to airspace over the Black Sea, in the Baltics around Kaliningrad, and up north, over the Barents Sea.

> Simultaneously as the U.S. surveillance jet made its first flight over Lapland south of the Kola Peninsula on Thursday, Finland's NATO membership took a significant step forward with the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee unanimously approving the Nordic country's accession to the alliance.

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