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Russia uses Tu-160 donated by Ukraine – media

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The Russian army uses Tu-160 aircraft, which Ukraine gave to the Russians 25 years ago over a gas debt.

Russia uses Ukrainian strategic bombers that Kiev transferred to Moscow as part of a 1999 deal in exchange for debt repayment for gas consumed by Russia. The project reports this Radio Liberty diagrams on Tuesday, November 26th.

At least six converted Tu-160 aircraft are in service with the Russian army.

The diagrams identified ten Ukrainian strategic aircraft that Ukraine transferred to Russia. This is the Tu-160, to which Russia has given new names: Nikolay Kuznetsov (it used to be a Ukrainian plane with tail number 10), Vasily Senko (11), Alexander Novikov (12), Vladimir Sudets (15), Alexey Plokhov (16), Andrey Tupolev (18), Igor Sikorsky (22).

Among them, at least six aircraft are in combat service with the Russian Army. The journalists found the aircraft numbers in an archived agreement between Ukraine and Russia, checked them with the international air registry and compared them with the number of bombers used by the Russian army.

In addition, journalists discovered three Tu-95MS aircraft: it Krasnoyarsk, Sevastopol, Izborsk – these are the new names that the Ukrainian bombers received in Russia.

Schemes We also found in the archive an agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, headed by Valery Pustovoitenko, and the Russian government under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, signed in Yalta in 1999. According to it, Kyiv transferred in Moscow eight Tu-160 heavy bombers and three Tu-95MS, as well as 575 Kh-55 cruise missiles. For this, Russia paid Ukraine for the debt for Russian gas – in the amount of 275 million Hryvnia. This is a certain amount of transferred equipment.

According to journalists, the transfer of aircraft and missiles took place without the approval of the Verkhovna Rada.

Let’s remember that the previous day in Russia the resignation of two directors of the largest aircraft factory was announced. The CEO of PJSC left their positions Yakovlev and Managing Director of JSC Tupolev.

The director of another Russian aircraft plant was fired – media
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