Russia seeks permission for surveillance flights over the United States

America fears that Russia will use the flights to collect intelligence information.Russia plans today to request permission to start flying surveillance aircraft equipped with the latest digital cameras, despite the warning, US intelligence and military officials that such flights over enable the official Moscow to collect intelligence on the United States.

Russia and the United States are signatories to the international agreement "Open Sky", which allows unarmed observation flights over the entire territory of all 34 signatory countries, in order to achieve transparency of military activities and monitoring compliance with the agreement on the unarmed and other agreements, reports the AP.Senior US intelligence and military officials, however, fear that Russia will take advantage of technological advances that violates the spirit of the agreement.

high tension

Russia will today ask the Committee on the occasion of the consultation agreement "Open Sky", with its headquarters in Vienna, she was granted permission to operate aircraft equipped state of the art sensors over the United States, said one anonymous member of staff of the US Congress.

This requirement of official Moscow will make the administration of US President Barack Obama to decide whether to allow Russia to use sophisticated equipment to its observation planes just when Moscow, according to reports from the State Department, does not fulfill all its obligations under the agreement, "Open sky".In addition, the relations between Russia and the United States are currently very high tensions due to Russia's actions in Ukraine and Syria.

• 22 Feb, 2016
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