MOSCOW —
President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he had ordered the military to resume regular long-range flights of strategic bombers, news agencies reported, returning to a practice that ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Speaking as Russian and Chinese forces held major war games exercises for the first time on Russian territory, Putin said a halt in long-range bombers' flights after the Soviet collapse had affected Russia's security as other nations had continued such missions — an oblique reference to the
United States.
"I have made a decision to resume regular flights of Russian strategic aviation," Putin was quoted as saying by Russian agencies.
"We proceed from the assumption that our partners will view the resumption of flights of
Russia's strategic aviation with understanding," Putin was quoted as saying.
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