Russian President Vladimir Putin sent nuclear-capable bombers to threaten northern Britain, carrying out a long-range Christmas flight over the Norwegian Sea. NATO scrambled fighter jets, Mirror reports.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russian-bombers-fly-near-britain-nato-scrambles-1766663390.html


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    28 days ago

    The “west” is losing their shit to start a war with Russia, and its really hard to understand what kind of benefit they will get with that. And even worse are the people looking forward to this, since they will be the cannon fodder while the people who started the conflict keep a luxurious life in faraway places

    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      28 days ago

      And even worse are the people looking forward to this

      You know Russia invaded Ukraine and has been in war for some time now, right?

      I don’t know what the west is “planning”, but Russia invaded first, so fuck em(the gov and its supporters).

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      28 days ago

      I have to assume they think this will help destabilize China by having more power over their borders/neighbors. That north border looks so empty without nukes pointing towards China on it…