Russia’s Tu-22M3 “Backfire,” a supersonic, variable-sweep wing strategic bomber, has been a key platform for launching cruise missiles (like the Kh-22/Kh-32) against Ukraine. -Originating from the ...

Ukraine said it hit 41 Russian planes in a huge attack and identified the aircraft as key to Russia's missile attacks and ...

A Ukrainian security source told BI that Kyiv struck at least 40 Russian aircraft on Sunday, including Tu-95 and Tu-22M ...

Video footage shows quadcopter drones striking multiple Tupolev Tu-95 bombers parked in the open, the result of what Ukraine ...

New video of the clandestine attack on 1 June released by the Security Service of Ukraine shows dozens of aircraft being ...

The bold attack demonstrated Ukraine’s capability to hit high-value targets anywhere on Russian territory, dealing a humiliating blow to the Kremlin and inflicting significant losses to Moscow’s ...

The Security Service of Ukraine oversaw a drone operation on Sunday that struck dozens of Russia’s strategic bombers just ahead of planned peace talks in Istanbul. Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

A screen recording from the Ukrainian’s pilot software shows a drone flying by two smoking Tu-95 bombers. Another Tu-95 is hit by an explosion. Car tires — apparent defensive measures — are visible ...

Before Sunday, Russia was estimated to have a fleet of about 60 such aircraft. The Tupolev Tu-22M is a twin-engine supersonic bomber designed in the 1970s that was code named Backfire by NATO.

Ukrainian drones destroyed 40 Russian aircraft in a strategic attack on airfields. The operation was a year in the making, ...

Ukrainian peace talks Monday amid heightened tensions after Ukraine's drone attack on Russian airfields, and unclaimed bridge ...

Ukraine’s first-person view (FPV) drones damaged aircraft and sparked fires on air bases in Irkutsk as well as Russia’s northern Murmansk, it said, while strikes were repelled in the Amur region in ...