Russia stages nuclear bomber drills north of the UK

Russia has staged nuclear drills off the north of Britain as one of Vladimir Putin‘s leading lieutenants advocated for the use of atomic weapons. 

Tu-160 supersonic strategic bombers conducted a 16-hour mission over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas.

F-35 fifth-generation fighters from NATO intercepted the Russian intercontinental strategic bombers at a moment of high tension as Putin refuses to halt his war in Ukraine.

The Norwegian Sea lies north of Shetland, the UK’s most northerly island grouping, between Norway and Iceland.

The Russian nuclear bombers were escorted by MiG-31 aircraft, and the Tu-160s practised in-flight refuelling, the defence ministry in

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