Russian Exercise Includes Strategic Bombers and Missiles

Russia began a large military exercise today that was scheduled to include strategic bomber flights and tests of land- and sea-based strategic missiles, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Feb. 2).

As required by U.S.-Russian arms control treaties, Russian officials have notified the United States of its plans for the exercise, said Col. Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the general staff of the Russian Armed Forces (Associated Press, Feb. 10).

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