{"id":2007997,"date":"2023-08-22T11:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-likely-destroys-supersonic-russian-bomber-in-drone-attack-uk-says\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:45:10","slug":"ukraine-likely-destroys-supersonic-russian-bomber-in-drone-attack-uk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-likely-destroys-supersonic-russian-bomber-in-drone-attack-uk-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK claims Ukraine destroyed Russian bomber with a drone attack."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-likely-destroys-supersonic-russian-bomber-in-drone-attack-uk-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>British Military Intelligence: Drone Attack Destroys Russian Bomber<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>British \u2062military intelligence said on Tuesday that\u2063 a weekend\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-explosions-heard-as-air-raid-sirens-sound-off-in-israel-near-nuclear-reactor\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Explosions Heard As Air Raid Sirens Sound Off In Israel Near Nuclear Reactor\">drone attack<\/a> on \u200dan airfield deep inside \u2063Russia which Moscow \u2062blamed on <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span> is highly \u200clikely to have destroyed\u200d a \u200dTU-22M3 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">supersonic<\/span> \u2062 long-range bomber.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kyiv,\u200c which \u200con Monday claimed to have attacked \u2064another\u2064 Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-sec-def-wont-appear-before-senate-committee-dem-threatens-with-subpoena\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Sec Def Won\u2019t Appear Before Senate Committee, Dem Threatens With Subpoena\">military airfield<\/a>, <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">says<\/span> Russia has used the TU-22M3 to \u2063bomb targets across <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>. Western military\u2063 experts \u2063believe\u200c Russia \u2063has around 60 of the\u2064 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Defense\u2064 Ministry said on \u200cSaturday \u2064that a military airfield in the Novgorod region \u200cwhere such planes are \u2062stationed had been attacked \u2063by a\u200d <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukrainian<\/span> drone and \u2063one \u200cplane had been damaged. It gave no more\u200d details.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not\u200c immediately verify the British assertion about the nature and scale of the damage \u200cwhich, if confirmed, would underscore the vulnerability to \u2064drone attack of advanced planes which are a major part of Moscow&#8217;s war effort.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>, which rarely takes\u200d public responsibility for attacks inside Russia\u2062 or on territory Moscow controls, \u200bthough it has said it will do everything it can to degrade Russian military assets.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, which has designated Britain a hostile country because \u200cof its military \u2063and financial\u200b support for <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>, did not comment on the British damage assessment.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Successful Attack&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>In\u2064 one of its regular updates on\u200b <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>, British \u200dmilitary intelligence said that &#8220;a Tu-22M3 BACKFIRE medium bomber of\u2064 Russia&#8217;s Long Range Aviation (LRA) was highly likely \u200cdestroyed at Soltsy-2 Air base in Novgorod Oblast,\u200b 650 km\u200c (403 miles) away \u2062from <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine\u2019s<\/span> border&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is \u200bat least the third successful attack on \u200cLRA airfields, again raising questions about Russia\u2019s ability to \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-likely-destroys-supersonic-russian-bomber-in-drone-attack-uk-says\/\" title=\"UK claims Ukraine destroyed Russian bomber with a drone attack.\">protect strategic \u200clocations\u200d deep inside<\/a> the country,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry\u2064 said on Saturday \u200bthe attack had been carried out by a\u2064 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukrainian<\/span> copter-style drone which had\u200b been shot down by small arms\u200b fire and that nobody had\u200b been hurt.<\/p>\n<p>British\u200c military intelligence \u2063said that\u200c if a copter-style drone had really been used to launch the attack, it added weight to the idea that some\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-officials-warn-rough-road-ahead-in-afghanistan-critics-warn-bidens-response-will-shatter-international-partnerships\/\" title=\"Biden officials warn rough road ahead in Afghanistan, critics warn Biden\u2019s response will shatter international partnerships\">drone attacks<\/a> were being launched from inside Russia as\u200c such drones were unlikely to have had the range to reach \u200bthe\u200c airfield from outside Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has often used <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">supersonic<\/span> TU-22M3 planes to bomb <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>, it added, criticising what it called the\u2064 &#8220;notoriously inaccurate&#8221; heavy anti-ship\u2064 missiles which the plane fires.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has repeatedly <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">said<\/span> \u2062it uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-commits-to-weapons-supply-as-battle-looms-in-ukraines-east\/\" title=\"U.S. Commits to Weapons Supply as Battle Looms in Ukraine\u2019s East\">high-precision missiles<\/a> to strike targets and does\u200d not deliberately target\u2063 civilians or civilian targets, an \u2063assertion Kyiv and its allies reject.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by\u200d Andrew Osborn;\u200b Editing by\u200d Gareth Jones\u2064 and Giles Elgood)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British military intelligence stated that a drone attack on a Russian airfield, wrongly attributed to Ukraine by Moscow, probably destroyed a TU-22M3 bomber. Kyiv, claiming responsibility for another attack on a Russian airfield, accuses Russia of using the TU-22M3 to bomb Ukraine. 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