Ahead of the NASAMS air defense systems deployment in Ukraine, pro-Kremlin media has revealed that Russia recently used one of its most potent weapons, the air-to-ground Kh-32 missile to hit at infrastructure targets of its neighbour. Launched from Tu-22M3 long range bombers, the Kh-32 is said to been used in attacks on Ukraine during the past fortnight that left Kyiv and a number of cities without power for days
A Federal Security Service (FSB) operative posing as Russian Air Force (RuAF) pilot agreed to fly his Su-30 fighter jet to Ukraine for $2 million and the possibility of foreign citizenship.
Russian missiles are difficult to intercept by Ukrainain Air defense makes it look as if Moscow is using Ukrainain territory as a 'test range' for its missiles."Ukraine, unfortunately, is a kind of test site for Russia," Yuri Ihnat, Spokesman of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said during the nationwide news telethon Sunday when asked whether the Russians had previously used missiles they fired today on Kyiv, several Ukrainian news outlets reported
A Ukrainian command post in Donbass was destroyed by Russias Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ("Dagger") nuclear-capable hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-surface missile. "On the afternoon of April 11, near the village of Chasov Yar, Donetsk region, a Kinzhal aviation missile system destroyed a buried, well-defended command post of a grouping of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a press briefing Monday
In the first ever use of a hypersonic weapon in battle, Russian forces destroyed a large underground weapons depot in Ukraine by firing a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-ground missile at it. Russian defense ministry said today that on March 18, its Armed Forces using a 'Kinzhal' hypersonic missile, destroyed the warehouse in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts Delyatyn village, some 470km West-Southwest from Kyiv
Russian strategic bomber Tu-22M3 has fired 16 precision missiles at targets in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv destroying civilian targets, claimed Ukraine's defense ministry. The attack on Ukrainian city took place on February 28
Russian forces will practice simulated militant camp bombing using four Tu-22M3 bombers in exercises with Uzbekistan near the latters border with Afghanistan. In the clearest indication ever that Moscow intends to hit at Taliban targets, the Russian MoD announced Thursday; “The Tu-22M3 will take off from an airfield in the Saratov region, fly to the Termez training ground and practice the tasks of delivering group bombing strikes against conditional camouflaged militant camps and ammunition depots during a joint Russian-Uzbek exercise
Three Russian Tu-22M3 long-range nuclear-capable bombers, which arrived Sunday at the Hmeymim Air Base in Syria, began over-flights in the Mediterranean Sea region today. At least one of the aircraft was photographed taking off with the KH-32 long-range anti-ship missile strapped to its wing
Three long-range Tu-22M3 bombers flew in to the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria on Monday in an apparent show of force. It is the first time that the aircraft flew to the Syrian base
Three crew members of Russsias Tu-22M3 long-range bomber died in an “abnormal operation” of the aircrafts ejection system while the aircraft was being prepared on the ground at an airfield near Kaluga. "On March 23, during the planned preparation on the ground for the Tu-22M3 flight at the airfield in the Kaluga region, an abnormal operation of the ejection system occurred