Two Russian Tu-160 missile carriers made a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The related video has been posted at: telegraph channel Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The ministry announced that the planes remained in the air for about 8 hours. At the same time, they were accompanied by Su-35 fighters serving in the country’s Aerospace Forces.
“The flight was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace,” said Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash, commander of long-range aviation.
He recalled that Russian pilots regularly made such flights. In particular, they control the situation in the waters of the Black and Baltic Seas, as well as in the sky over the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic.
Prior to this, the Ministry of Defense opened to the public Footage of the destruction of Ukrainian military equipment in the Zaporozhye direction. The video shows how soldiers first fix and determine the coordinates of military vehicles and then are eliminated by special FPV drones with first-person view functionality.
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