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Ukrainian military intelligence reports about new episodes of alarming Russian military trainings on the borders of Ukraine and in occupied territories. Among all the measures of the preparatory phase of the strategic army exercises "Caucasus-2016" of Russian military during the day two cases draw attention of Ukrainian special services.

The first one – two strategic bombers Tu-95MS from the 22 heavy bomber division, based in Saratov region of Russia, were noted in the airspace of the Black Sea and occupied Crimea. They completed the training flight on overcoming air defense systems on southwest operational direction with the purpose of commencing missile and bomb strikes. Ukrainian regions of Odesa, Kherson and Mykolaiv are on this direction from occupied Crimea.

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