States are prepared to limit the flights of Russian military planes over its territory.
According to The Wall Street Journal, citing high-ranking representatives of the Pentagon and the state Department.
We will remind, on August 9, Russian aircraft at low altitude flying over Washington, including the White house and the Pentagon.
The flight took place in the framework of the so-called Treaty on open skies, participating in which includes 34 countries, including Russia and the United States.
The aim of the international open skies Treaty on strengthening of trust between States by controlling military activities and weapons.
According to sources Wall Street Journal, the decision to restrict flights primarily due to the fact that, in their opinion, Russia itself does not comply with the contract. So she has banned flights of us military planes over the Kaliningrad oblast.
«Permission to Russian planes spies to fly over our territory and take photographs of military facilities puts our country at risk. Only this summer the Russian military aircraft flew over the air force base Wright-Patterson. As a member of the armed services Committee, I heard repeated testimony confirming the abuse of Russia by the Treaty on open skies. I look forward to the President’s administration stopped this practice,» said Congressman Mike Turner.
