Russia’s Ministry of Defense published a video of two Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers conducting a scheduled flight over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan (East Sea), accompanied and guarded by Su-35s fighter jets. The warplanes were in the air for 7 hours and as Commander of Russia's Long-Range Aviation, Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash, stressed, “the flight was carried out in strict compliance with international rules on the use of airspace.” Flights likes these by Russia's Long-Range Aviation are regularly conducted over the waters of the Pacific Ocean, as well as the Arctic, North Atlantic, Black and Baltic seas.