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Ukraine says it shot down Russian strategic bomber after strike kills nine

A Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber, in Dubrovichi outside Ryazan, Russia [File: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]

Ukraine’s air force says it shot down a Russian strategic bomber with antiaircraft missiles for the first time since the war began in 2022.

The warplane was downed in Russian airspace, 300km (186 miles) from Ukraine’s border, on Friday after it took part in a long-range air strike that killed at least nine people in the central region of Dnipropetrovsk.

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