Second world war British fighter planes unearthed in Ukraine

Some of the remains of the Hurricanes found buried in a forest near Kyiv. Photograph: National Aviation Museum

Authorities in Ukraine have discovered the remains of eight British Hurricane fighter planes dating back to the second world war.

The aircraft, found near an unexploded bomb dating from the same conflict in a forest south of Kyiv, were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941.