Tokyo, Japan:
Japan stirred combat planes after Russian bombers flew over international waters throughout the country, the main spokesman for the Tokyo government said on Friday.
“We confirm that Russian military bombers and combat planes flew over the high seas of the Okhotsk Sea and the sea of Japan yesterday, and we played combat planes of the air self -defense force in response,” said Yoshimasa Hayashi to journalists.
“It is difficult to say clearly what the purpose of the flight was … But the Russian army has been continuously active in the areas that surround Japan,” he said.
Tokyo has raised the problem with Moscow in the past through diplomatic routes, even with respect to the intrusion of a Russian combat plane in territorial airspace in September, which Russia denied according to media reports.
“We will continue monitoring (the situation) closely and we will do everything possible to take measures to patrol and respond to the incursions of airspace,” said Hayashi.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Thursday of the telegram that two long -range bombers flew over international waters in the sea of Japan and the Okhotsk Sea.
The Russian Ministry also launched a video of two Tupolev-95 aircraft escorted by Russian combat planes that carried out what it called a regular flight for more than eight hours.
“All the flights of the airplanes of the Russian aerospace forces are carried out in strict compliance with the international rules on the use of airspace,” he said in a statement.
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