the Russian Tu-160, to support which the UK raised their fighter planes were flying in international waters in the Barents and Norwegian seas and Atlantic ocean. As reported RIA Novosti, said on Thursday, February 9, the official representative of the defense Ministry major-General Igor Konashenkov.
during the flight, the General said, the crew of the Tu-160 has performed aerial refueling aircraft tanker Il-78. At separate stages of the route the bombers were accompanied by foreign aircraft, including fighters of the air forces of great Britain, “for which the support of Russian aircraft and ships of the Russian Navy somehow is always considered an exceptional event and the main news of the day,” added Konashenkov.
defense Ministry spokesman also said that all flights of the aerospace defence forces of Russia are executed in strict compliance with international regulations use of airspace, the borders of other countries are not violated.
Earlier, on 9 February the Ministry of defence of the United Kingdom stated that it raised in the air Typhoon fighters to escort a Tu-160. They flew from airbases at Lossiemouth and Coningsby after the announcement of alarm. The defense Ministry stressed that the Russian bombers did not enter the airspace of great Britain.
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