"At some stretches of the route the strategic missile platforms were escorted by the Su-35S fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces, MiG-31 of the naval aviation of the Russian Navy, as well as F-22 fighters of the US Air Force," the ministry said.
The Russian aircraft were carrying out a scheduled flight over the neutral waters.
Tu-95 is a four-engine long-range strategic bomber developed by Russian aerospace and defense company Tupolev Design Bureau in 1950s. The current version is the Tu-95MS, which entered service in 1984.