Russian pilots will train to land on a highway during their exercise, Southern Military District Spokesman Vadim Astafyev told TASS on Friday. According to Astafyev, the air task unit of the Fourth Air and Air Defence Forces Command began the first training exercise of the year, during which the pilots will train to land on a Rostov Region highway. 

Astafyev also said that for three days 40 crews of the Su-30SM and Su-27 fighter aircraft and Su-34 bombers would participate the exercises and fighter aircraft would perform aerobatic manoeuvres.