“Two strategic missile carriers Tu-160 of long-range aviation performed a planned flight in airspace over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
The fighter escort was provided by the crews of the Su-35S of the aerospace forces and the Su-27 of the naval aviation of the navy, "TASS reports.
The Ministry of Defense clarified that at certain stages of the route, Russian strategic missile carriers were accompanied by fighters Eurofighter Typhoon of the German Air Force, F-16 of the Danish Air Force, F-18 of the Finnish Air Force.
Earlier it became known that two Russian long-range anti-submarine Tu-142 aircraft flew over the neutral waters of the North, Norwegian and Barents Seas, as well as over the northeastern Atlantic.