Published: Feb 23, 2024, 03:20 IST | Updated: Feb 23, 2024, 03:20 IST
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin put on a pilot's uniform and sat in the pilot's seat of a contemporary Tu-160M strategic bomber fighter plane to personally inspect the level of modernization. The head of state arrived on the runway at the Kazan Aviation Plant dressed as a pilot and took the pilot's seat, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Kazan, a city in southwest Russia.