MOSCOW – Russia claims United States of America bombers were intercepted byits fighter jets when the former were trying to approach its border fromthe Black and Baltic Seas.
The Russians scrambled Sukhoi Su-27 fighters to track and intercept the USB-52H strategic bombers, which can carry nuclear weapons, after theyallegedly came near the Russian border.
“On June 17, 2019, crews of Russian Su-27 fighter jets that were on combatduty intercepted US B-52H bombers that were approaching Russia’s stateborder from the Black and Baltic Seas,” a spokesman for Russia’s NationalDefense Management Centre said on Monday.
