“Over the past month, we have observed the flights of about 30 NATO strategic aircraft near our borders.
This is over the waters of the Black and Baltic Seas, the Arctic Ocean, and in the east of our country.
They pass near our borders, work out some of their exercises.
Of course we react to these things.
Moreover, we train all our duty shifts, combat crews of both air defense and aviation, and control points for flights of such aircraft.
And we proposed at one time - both a year and two years ago - to the leadership of both NATO and the US Armed Forces to consider issues and clarify existing agreements on preventing dangerous military activities in the air and at sea, ”Gerasimov said.
He explained that "the fact is that such agreements exist, they have been signed, but they do not indicate, in particular, some details: the intervals for the convergence, the distance for the convergence of aircraft and ships, the procedure for action, and so on."
“It means that these appeals of ours remained unanswered.
That is, we see that the leadership of NATO and the Armed Forces of the United States of America seems to be satisfied with this situation.
She does not suit us.
We do not want any incidents that can lead to conflict situations.
Therefore, our military pilots and commanders of naval ships are behaving with restraint and in accordance with the applicable international legal documents, ”he said.
On September 24, it was reported that a Russian Su-27 fighter was climbing to intercept the American B-52H strategic bomber, which was approaching the Russian border from Poland.