Another group of Russian aircraft departed from the Hmeymim airbase and headed to the permanent bases in the territory of the Russian Federation on March16,Russian Federation Defence Ministry reports.
Another group of Russian aircraft departed from the Hmeymim airbase and headed to the permanent bases in the territory of the Russian Federation on March16,Russian Federation Defence Ministry reports.
The group consists of a “leader”, an IL-76 aircraft, as well as attack aircraft Su-24M.
Long-range flights of the Russian aircraft from the Hmeymim airbase to permanent location airfields in the territory of Russia are performed in groups. It is said that the group follows the assigned route until it reaches the border of the Russian Federation. Having reached the borders, all the aircraft are to reach their airfield independently.
«If it is necessary, the aircraft are conducting intermediate flight stops at military airfields for refueling and technical condition monitoring during the flight over territories of the Russian Federation», the ministry noted.
Remember:
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on March 14 to address issues of settling the Syrian crisis. The president gave an order to begin withdrawing the main part of Russian troops from the Syrian Arab Republic.
