Article intéressant.
Entre autres choses, il mentionne une autre réunion déformée par les médias Russe
a close encounter was in 2021. Despite the intercept was pretty uneventful, the images of the two aircraft flying together were used one year later for some completely made up reports that changed the narrative, stating that the intercept had been carried out by the Russian aircraft on the Italian one, and that the F-35 pilot had been taken by surprise by the Su-30: a fake news that even included quotes of the pilot (even though no ItAF Lightning II pilot had ever been authorized to talk to the media…).
https://theaviationist.com/2023/09/29/su-30-intercepted-by-italian-f-35/