MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Ukrainian military experts will fly over the territory of Russia under the Treaty on Open Skies on June 22-26, head of Russia's National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center Sergei Ryzhkov has announced.
"Within the framework of the international Treaty on Open Skies a joint Swedish-German-Ukrainian mission will conduct an observation flight over the territory of the Russian Federation in the period of June 22-26 aboard a Swedish Saab-340b observation aircraft," Ryzhkov said.
The Treaty on Open Skies was signed in 1992 in Helsinki and currently applies to 34 countries, including most NATO member-states, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden and Finland. The treaty establishes a regime of unarmed aerial observation flights over the entire territory of its participants with the aim of boosting transparency of military activities.
