Fighters VKS forced the bombers B-1B Lancer the US air force to turn away from the Russian border, said the Ministry of defence.
the Ministry stressed that the air defense system gave the American military Aircraft over the Black and Baltic seas.
then rose in the air su-27P and su-30CM, close to a safe distance and was accompanied by B-1B, as long as they not changed course.
in the Ministry of defence said that the flights of Russian aircraft were " strictly in Accordance with international rules." After the task is complete, the Fighters returned to base.
before the command of the U.S. air force in the European Union was informed that two B-1B Lancer performed a flight over the Black sea. The jets took off from an airbase in South Dakota.
This is not 1st time when American bombers carried out operations near Russian borders.
According to the envoy of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, the emergence of an American aircraft near the Russian borders creates additional tensions in the relations of the two countries. Moscow many times urged Washington to cancel these flights, but American authorities refused.
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