Russia says it is sharply extending the range of its bomber flights from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, a new show of military force even as Moscow continues to spar with the West over its intervention in Ukraine.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the new flights Wednesday, saying that “in the current situation we have to maintain military presence” in the western Atlantic, the eastern Pacific, as well as over waters approaching the United States.
The additional flights come in the wake of accusations by NATO, the Western military alliance, that Russia recently has sent …read more
Source: Voice of America
