Putin: Russia stopped strategic aviation flights, but did not wait for the US response 
Russia stopped its strategic aviation for several years , without waiting for a response from the United States, resumed them. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with the host of the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin “to Pavel Zarubin, reports TASS.
” This once did not happen, in the 1990s and almost until the mid-2000s, we did not do this, because we saved the motor resource, and even we did not it was aviation. In general, there was not a lot of things, “the head of state explained.
At the same time, the American partners, as Putin specified, continued such flights. “We waited, waited – and waited about five years, in my opinion, and resumed these flights. So there is nothing surprising here, we have been flying for several years, “he said.
On Saturday, November 13, the Russian president spoke about strategic aviation flights in the skies over Belarus. He explained that this is happening as part of a routine exercise. “Here our western partners conduct exercises on a regular and irregular basis, unscheduled, of various kinds. We do it too, ”he added.