MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry on Tuesday said two Tu-95 strategic bombers had carried out a seven-hour flight over the Sea of Japan, accompanied by Su-35 fighter jets.
“The flight was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for using airspace,” Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash, long-range aviation commander, said in a statement.
“Long-range aviation pilots regularly carry out flights over the neutral waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, Black and Baltic Seas, and Pacific Ocean,” Kobylash said.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Christina Fincher and Kevin Liffey)
