RT spoke with Valery Chkalov's great-grandson Igor. He said that Daria Bogdanova was the only one from the family who left Russia.
Senator Olga Kovitidi condemned the calls to launch a nuclear strike on Moscow. “A sane person could not express such a position. This is just an attempt at hype in a very dubious field due to one’s own stupidity and under the influence of external factors, which consist of anti-Russian propaganda in Europe,” she said.