VLADIMIR Putin took the long way round to get to the G20 summit in Hamburg, flying an additional 300 miles to avoid entering the airspace of several NATO countries, it has been reported.
The Russian president could have flown directly from Moscow to the north German city, cutting west through the skies above Belarus, Lithuania and Poland.
But instead his Ilyushin Il-96 300PU headed north towards the Finnish capital of Helsinki and down over the Baltic Sea past Sweden, both non-NATO affiliated countries.
The jet then passed over Denmark before landing in Germany, according an online flight tracker.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters that the president"s security was paramount, without detailing the precise security risks posed by taking the shorter route.
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