National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov has said that if Ukrainian air space is violated by military aircraft then Ukraine will respond in the same manner as Turkey would.

"The Ukrainian military must act in the same way by defending our state from aggression in air space," the NSDC press service quotes Turchynov as saying after an Su-24 Russian Air Force jet was shot down by the Turkish Air Force on Tuesday morning.