Russia To Conduct Observation Flight Over US This Week

Umer Jamshaid Published March 25, 2019 | 04:00 AM

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 25th March, 2019) Russia will conduct an observation flight over the United States under the Open Skies Treaty on March 25-30, a newspaper affiliated with the Russian Defense Ministry reported Monday.

"From March 25 to 30, a Russian group of inspectors plans to conduct an observation flight on a Russian Tu-154M LK-1 plane over the United States.

The upcoming flight will start at the Open Skies Treaty airfield of Great Falls and have a maximum range of 5,130km (3,188 miles)," the Krasnaya Zvesda (Red Star) newspaper said.

During the same period, a Slovak-Polish team of experts will conduct an observation flight on a Ukrainian plane over Russia and Belarus, while Russian and Belarusian observers fly over Poland. The maximum range of the flight will be 1,400 kilometers.