Russian strategic bomber planes overfly Barents and Norwegian seas, RIA says
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FILE PHOTO: Russian Tu-160 Supersonic Bomber flies during a military parade marking the Belarus Independence Day in Minsk, Belarus July 3, 2019. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Tu-160 strategic bomber planes flew over the Barents and Norwegian seas as part of a major naval exercise, the state-run RIA news agency quoted the defence ministry as saying on Wednesday.
It said the flights were part of the "Ocean-2024" drills that Russia launched a day earlier.
The exercises, the biggest since the Soviet era, will involve more than 90,000 servicemen, over 400 vessels and 125 aircraft and will run until Sept. 16 across a vast area including parts of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Mediterranean, Baltic and Caspian seas.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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