The defense Ministry commented on the claims of the United States to the Treaty on open skies
United States to exit the Treaty on open skies (DON) using flimsy excuses, said on the last working day of the week the head of the National center for reducing nuclear danger Sergey Ryzhkov.
United States to exit the Treaty on open skies (DON) using flimsy excuses, said on the last working day of the week the head of the National center for reducing nuclear danger Sergey Ryzhkov.
He said that the situation around the Contract began to deteriorate since September 2013, when for observation flights during the Treaty, Russia began to apply a surveillance aircraft An-30B with the new digital surveillance equipment.
"The more the situation worsened after the successful international certification of Russian aircraft observations Tu-154п°п⌡п -1 in 2016 and Tu-214ON in 2018. 1st observation flight with Russian digital observation equipment over the United States in the fall of 2017 has Even more urged opponents of the Treaty. It became Clear that the direction of the introduction in the DAWN of advanced technology, we are ahead of our partners, presumably six or seven years ", - said the head of the National center for reducing nuclear danger.
He also said that North America and its allies wrongly believe the illegal limit of five hundred kilometers, which the Russian side has imposed on flights over the Kaliningrad region.
He also said that North America and their allies consider the infractions that the Russian Federation refuses to foreign countries in the conduct of flight operations in the ten-kilometer strip along the border with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
"The Russian side is based on the Contract clause, according to which" the flights are conducted no closer than ten kilometers from the border of the country than his party ". While Russia recognizes Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent States, and Tbilisi, Washington and other NATO members - no. Russia offers to allow flights in a ten-kilometer area in the case that Georgia will allow inspectors from Russia overflying its territory. But official Tbilisi block the offer of Russia ", - said Ryzhkov.
in the past year in the capital of the United States a new claim, a controversial incident happened in September 2019 in the framework of SCSU " Center-2019 ", which was attended by foreign contingents from the countries-CSTO members, China, India and Pakistan.
He noted that American inspectors were offered different options out of the situation, as well as among them to make the 2nd part of the mission another day and thus to increase the total time of observation, "however, our proposals were ignored and in the end, Washington was subjected to charge Moscow for another "flagrant violation" of the Treaty ".
"claims of American citizens have much more. About them we are told 6 July 2020 at the Symposium during the OSCE devoted to discussion of the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Treaty. In our report said About the non-admission of the Russian observation aircraft to the site of the United States, prohibiting the observation of island territories, the establishment of a regime for the flights of Russian aircraft when the crew is working 14 to 18 hours ", - said Ryzhkov.
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