Russia will immediately resume long-range strategic bomber flights on a "permanent" basis, ending its 15-year suspension of such missions, President Vladimir Putin said.
"We have decided to renew flights of Russian strategic aviation on a permanent basis," Mr Putin said after he and Chinese President Hu Jintao attended large-scale joint military exercises near this town in the Urals region.
The flights would resume from Saturday, Mr Putin said.
The announcement came days after Moscow said its strategic bombers had begun exercises over the North Pole, and just a week after Russian planes flew within a few hundred kilometres of a US military base on the island of Guam.
"Russia unilaterally stopped flights of its strategic aviation in distant areas of military action. Unfortunately, not everyone followed our example," he said, in an apparent reference to the United States.
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