The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that strategic bombers of the Russian and Chinese air forces carried out a joint patrol flight over the maritime waters of Japan and East China.
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The Russian military portfolio specified through a note that Tu-95MS bombers of the Russian Aerospace Force and H-6K of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force “carried out joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region, including the Japan and East China seas.
In turn, the authorities indicated that the duration of the flight of the Russian strategic missile carriers “was approximately 8 hours”, which was escorted by Su-30 and Su-35 fighters of the Russian air force and by aircraft from other countries, without specifying nationalities.
The Russian armed forces pointed out that this is the first time in the framework of an air patrol that Russian bombers have landed at a Chinese airfield and that Chinese combat aircraft have landed at a Russian terminal.
Similarly, the ministry emphasized that the bombers of the exercise acted strictly in accordance with the provisions of international law without committing violations of the airspace of foreign States.
#China reported that his air force and that of #Russia conducted regular joint strategic air patrols in the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and Western Pacific, in accordance with an annual schedule of military cooperation https://t.co/gSCDghWafT
— Iramsy Peraza (@IramsyteleSUR)
November 30, 2022
In this sense, the Russian agency stressed that the air operation, carried out as part of the military cooperation plan scheduled for this year, is exclusively defensive in nature.
Relations in military matters between Moscow and Beijing have experienced a greater degree of closeness following the increase in tensions with the West from the mobilization of troops to Eastern Europe and the interventionist acts in Taiwan.
