A composite aviation regiment of Russia’s Central Military District stationed in the Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals has completed its rearmament with Sukhoi Su-34 generation 4++ fighter-bombers, Central Military District Commander Colonel-General Alexander Lapin said on Wednesday. This reported by TASS.

"The work on setting up the second squadron of Su-34 planes near Chelyabinsk has been completed. Now the air regiment is 100% armed with new generation 4++ bombers," the commander said.

The aviation regiment near Chelyabinsk is the sole unit in the Central Military District that operates Su-34 aircraft, he added.

The rearmament process was completed after three Su-34 planes arrived at the Shchagol airfield from Novosibirsk, the press office of the Central Military District reported.

"The flight and ground personnel who will operate and service Su-34 planes have been retrained for the new aircraft at the Lipetsk state aviation personnel training center and received all the necessary certificates," the press office specified.

The first Su-34 planes entered service with the Central Military District’s aviation in 2018. Overall, 24 aircraft have arrived for the aviation regiment.