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U.S. Official Witnesses Ukrainian Bomber DestructionFrom Tuesday, September 30, 2003 issue.
U.S. Brig. Gen. Thomas Kuenning, director of the U.S. Defense Department’s Cooperative Threat Reduction program, arrived in Ukraine today to oversee the destruction of a Tu-22M Backfire bomber, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, July 29).
The bomber was the last of 12 Tu-22Ms based in the city of Poltava to be destroyed, the U.S. Embassy in Kiev said. An additional 19 Tu-22Ms based in the southern city of Mykolaiv and 225 air-to-surface missiles housed at the Ozernoye air base are scheduled to be destroyed by July 2004, AP reported. The Pentagon is awaiting Ukrainian permission to begin assisting the destruction of an additional 20 Tu-22Ms and 25 missiles (Associated Press, Sept. 30).
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