Satellite images show strategic bombers at Russia's Olenya Air Base on the Kola peninsula.
that Israeli intelligence firm ImageSat International had detected an"irregular presence" of Russian TU-160 and TU-95 strategic bombers at the airbase.
"It could be part of an exercise, possibly the yearly exercise 'Grom'" he said, referring to the drills in late October in which Russia's nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and missiles are put to test. Haga said this is"as much about nuclear signaling as it is an exercise to build and test skills and capabilities.
"Finally, and I assess that to be the least likely reason, they may be there to load missiles for attacks against Ukraine. That rests on an assumption that there are conventional air launched cruise missiles for these aircraft stored at Olenya, something I do not know for a fact.
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