Two Tu-160 Russian strategic bombers landed at the Libertador military airfield, in central Venezuela, on Wednesday to carry out training flights in the region, local news agencies said quoting a source in Russia's Defense Ministry.  

"Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers of the Russian Air Force will conduct a number of training flights over neutral waters in the next few days and later return to their home base in Russia, said a spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax.

The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack, according to the code of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), is a supersonic bomber with variable-geometry wings that came into service in the late eighties, reported AFP.