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A group of Russian military inspectors will make observation flights over the territory of Germany
MOSCOW, September 01, /ITAR-TASS/. A group of British military inspectors will make observation flights over the territory of Russia within the frames of the Open Skies Treaty starting on Monday, a high-ranking Russian military official said.
Ruslan Shishin, an acting head of the Russian National Centre for Reducing Nuclear Threat, said that British inspectors will make observation flights over the territory of Russia between September 1 and 5, flying Swedish reconnaissance aircraft SAAB-340B.
He added that the flights would be conducted along earlier agreed routes and Russian specialists on board the aircraft will accompany the British inspectors controlling the use of surveillance equipment as well as observation of the treaty’s provisions.
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A group of Russian military inspectors will make observation flights over the territory of Germany within the frames of the Open Skies Treaty starting on Monday, a high-ranking Russian military official said.
Ruslan Shishin, an acting head of the Russian National Centre for Reducing Nuclear Threat, said that Russian inspectors will make observation flights over the territory of Germany between September 1 and 5, flying Swedish reconnaissance aircraft Antonov An-30B.
The Russian government this week canceled a planned U.S. surveillance flight over Russian territory in a bid to limit spying on massed troops facing off against Ukraine and Eastern Europe, according to U.S. officials.
The overflight mission was scheduled for April 14 to April 16 under the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, but Russia’s government notified the State Department 72 hours before the scheduled flight that it would not be permitted.
The cancellation is unusual because the sole reason for putting off such treaty-approve surveillance is flight safety, such as bad weather.
Until this week, the United States and other European allies who are a party to the 34-nation treaty were conducting weekly overflights above Russia during the past month.