South Korea protests flight of Russian strategic bombers
The South Korean Defense Ministry has summoned Russian military attaché Andrey Falileev due to the flight of the Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber, which, according to South Korea, violated the country's air defense identification zone.
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| Russian strategic bomber Tu-95MS. Photo: Sputnik |
"The intrusion of Russian aircraft into the air defense identification zone does not contribute to efforts to stabilize the situation on the Korean Peninsula and the Northeast Asia region.
Given the fact that there is a risk of collision in the air, we ask Russia to recognize the seriousness of the incident and take steps to prevent similar incidents in the future," - reads the statement, which the representative of the South Korean Ministry of Defense handed over to the Russian military attaché.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry told Sputnik that two Tu-95MS bombers performed pre-planned flights over the neutral waters of Japan and the Yellow Sea as well as in the western Pacific Ocean.
At the same time, during the stages of the flight, Korean and Japanese aircraft flew along. During the flight, the TU-95MS crew carried out in-flight refueling.