“So, in April of this year, one flight of B-1B strategic bomber aircraft was carried out along the Kamchatka Peninsula, and five such flights were recorded in May,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
The military leader said that the planes were approaching the Russian border near Kaliningrad at a distance of 10 km.
According to Rudsky, during the flight, air defense systems of Russia were monitored by bombers and implemented measures to prevent incidents.
On May 29, it became known that the Russian Air Defense forces on duty escorted the US Air Force V-1B strategic bombers over the neutral waters of the Black and Baltic Seas.