Its jets set off from Laage in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, identifying the Russian aircraft in international airspace, and accompanying it for a short time before it turned back east, the post said.
The IL-20M military aircraft was flying without a transponder signal over the Baltic Sea, it said.
(Reporting by Emma-Victoria Farr and Sabine Siebold, editing by Gareth Jones)
