It is stated that the flight duration of the missile carriers was more than five hours. The escort of the fighters throughout the flight was carried out by the Su-35S crews.
It should be noted that at some stages of the route our strategic missile carriers were accompanied by combat aircraft from foreign countries.
Commander of long-range aviation, Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash, stressed that the flight of our Tu-95MS was carried out “in strict accordance with international standards for the use of airspace.” According to him, Russian long-range aviation pilots of the Russian Aerospace Forces regularly fly over the neutral waters of the Arctic, the North Atlantic, the Pacific Ocean, the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.
