Russia scrambled two Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to escort a pair of U.S. B-1B strategic bombers over the Black Sea, Russia's defense ministry said, an incident that coincided with a visit to the region by the U.S. secretary of defense
The supersonic U.S. Cold war-era planes were originally designed to carry nuclear bombs and missiles but now carry conventional payloads.
"After the foreign warplanes had been turned away from Russia's state border, the Russian fighters safely returned to their home air base." to peace in eastern Ukraine and called on Moscow to end destabilising activities in the Black Sea and along Ukraine's borders.
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