“In the period from 10 to 13 August, as part of the implementation of the Treaty on Open Skies, the Russian Federation plans to perform an observation flight on the Russian observation aircraft TU-154M LK-1 over the territory of Germany,” the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper quotes him.
Ryzhkov noted that the maximum flight range along the route agreed with the German side will be 1300 km.
In May, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the assumptions that the Russian side could use observation flights within the framework of the Don to target weapons cause laughter.