MOSCOW, September 01. /ITAR-TASS/. A group of Russian military inspectors will make observation flights over the territory of Germany within the frames of the Open Skies Treaty starting on Monday, a high-ranking Russian military official said.

Ruslan Shishin, an acting head of the Russian National Centre for Reducing Nuclear Threat, said that Russian inspectors will make observation flights over the territory of Germany between September 1 and 5, flying Swedish reconnaissance aircraft Antonov An-30B.

He added that the flights would be conducted along earlier agreed routes and Italian specialists on board the aircraft will accompany the British inspectors controlling the use of surveillance equipment as well as observation of the treaty’s provisions.