Russia’s upper house votes to withdraw from overflight treaty

Russian Tu-22M3 bombers fly over the Kremlin’s Tower with a Red Star on the top (Ivan Sektretarev/AP)

The Russian parliament’s upper house voted to withdraw from an international treaty allowing surveillance flights over military facilities following the US exit from the treaty.

The vote comes after US officials told Moscow last month that President Joe Biden’s administration had decided not to reenter the Open Skies Treaty, which had allowed surveillance flights over military facilities before then president Donald Trump withdrew from the pact.