A nothing burger of an article. The military has been using military comtractors and CIA front companies for decades to fly missions all over the globe using all kinds of aircraft, both US and Russian. Almost all of the flight crew are high time former military pilots, many of them right out of 160th SOAR and the USAF SOWs.
You and I know that but most people do not.
This is hoe the media gets away with contorting information all the time so that the real issues never get discussed.