Russia Deploys Bombers to Crimea
“The Russian military will deploy nuclear-capable Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 strategic bombers on the Crimean peninsula. Additionally, the Kremlin is setting up an Iskander missile deployment in Kaliningrad, the Russian territorial exclave on the Baltic Sea coast, for a military exercise. Russia’s state-run TASS news agency quoted a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry who noted, ‘Strategic missile carriers TU-22MS will be transferred to Crimea in the course of a surprise combat readiness inspection.’”