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by at0mic22 378 days ago
Ukraine actually has inherited 19 TU-160s from USSR. 8 of which were transfered to Russia as a payment for natural gas, and 11 were disassembled.
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geoka9 378 days ago
> and 11 were disassembled

In exchange for security promises (Budapest Memorandum).

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at0mic22 378 days ago
In exchange for $500M from Nunn-Lugar programme
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geoka9 377 days ago
That was funds for the scrapping operations.
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at0mic22 377 days ago
Right, the US payed to scrape the military equipment.
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greedo 378 days ago
As I wrote, Ukraine has no large bombers in this class...
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