Russian Upper House Votes To Exit From Overflight Treaty

Russian Upper House Votes To Exit From Overflight Treaty
A Russian Air Force Tu-214 flies over Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Neb., on April 26, 2019. Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP
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MOSCOW—The Russian parliament’s upper house voted Wednesday to withdraw from an international treaty allowing surveillance flights over military facilities following the U.S. exit from the treaty.

The vote comes after U.S. 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 former President Donald Trump withdrew from the pact.