Watch^The Russian army uses Ukrainian bombers
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Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:11:46 +0200
Ukrainian bombers in the Russian army what is knowJournalists of the Schemes project conducted a detailed analysis of open data and compared the serial numbers of the aircraft in the agreement of those times, which were searched in the archive, data from international air registers and numbers of bombers used by the Russian Federation, which was recorded by the GUR.As a result, it was possible to identify ten Ukrainian strategic aircraft, which Kyiv handed over to Moscow.What is important to understand, first of all, about the Tu160, which was given other names in RussiaMykola Kuznetsov previously it was a Ukrainian plane with flight number 10,Vasyl Senko 11,Olexander Novikov 12,Volodymyr Sudets 15,Aleksii Plokhov 16,Andrii Tupolev 18,Ihor Sikorsky 22.Investigators draw attention to the fact that at least 6 aircraft are in combat formation of the Russian army.In addition, it was possible to find an agreement between the Ukrainian government headed by Valery Pustovoytenko and the Russian government under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, signed in Yalta in 1999.According to it, Ukraine transferred to the Russian Federation 8 Tu160 heavy bombers and three Tu95MS, as well as 575 Kh55 cruise missiles.
For this, Moscow compensated Ukraine for the debt for Russian gas in the amount of 275 million hryvnias.
This is the determined cost of the transferred equipment.In addition, it is indicated that the transfer of aircraft and missiles took place without the consent of the Parliament of Ukraine.According to the journalists, the cost of the specified weapons was underestimated by as much as ten times.Kuchma comments on the provision of bombersThe then President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, in his comments to journalists, began to claim that even if strategic bombers remained in service with Ukraine, it would not significantly help in defense against the Russian Federation.
Russia has air defense assets capable of countering X55class missiles, while the enormous size and relatively lowspeed bombers in the early days of the war would have been easy prey for Russian weapons both in the air and on airfields, he says.
Moreover, Kuchma assures that strategic weapons could hardly help in solving Ukraines strategic tasks, and they definitely did not fit into the Ukrainian scale.
We did not have test sites for rockets.
We did not even have sufficient territorial extent for the exploitation of these means because strategic weapons require strategic space, said the expresident.
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