“We have restored what was: our strategic and long-range aviation began to fly to where it once flew. We started to carry out planned flights, ”said Shoigu when answering a question about recent Tu-160 flights to Anadyr airport and back to the Saratov region.
He noted that the United States is aware of the flights of Russian aircraft.
“But let’s do it, we have a mood today, let’s take it a bit - no, this is normal planned work, because how do you imagine - to bully a neighbor with strategic bombers, missile carriers in fact,” the head of the Russian Defense Ministry added.
On August 14, the Ministry of Defense announced that two Tu-160s during the planned flight tactical exercises made a flight to the Anadyr airfield in Chukotka.
On August 16, these aircraft completed a long flight from the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the Saratov Region with air refueling.