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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.

• geoka9 1y ago
  > and 11 were disassembled In exchange for security promises (Budapest Memorandum).
  • at0mic22 1y ago
    In exchange for $500M from Nunn-Lugar programme
    • geoka9 1y ago
      That was funds for the scrapping operations.
      • at0mic22 1y ago
        Right, the US payed to scrape the military equipment.
• greedo 1y ago
  As I wrote, Ukraine has no large bombers in this class...