Ukraine may have just scored its longest-range drone strike yet in Russian territory — a Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber around 1,100 miles away

• Ukraine says it struck a Tu-22M3 bomber around 1,100 miles from its border.
• This would be Ukraine’s deepest strike on Russian territory since the war began.
• The Tu-22M3 is a long-range supersonic bomber designed to take out sea- and ground-based targets.

Ukraine said it hit a website.

The head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR), Kyrylo Budanov, previously told BBC Ukraine that the Soviet-era aircraft carries Kh-22 missiles, adding that the munitions “have perhaps brought the most destruction” to Odesa in southern Ukraine.

Ukraine said it took out its first Tu-22M3 of the war back in April at an airbase in southern Russia around 200 miles from Ukraine.

A video shared on X appeared to show the bomber falling through the sky.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said earlier this month that it had foiled a Ukrainian plot to hijack a Tu-22M3 and fly it to Ukraine.

“Ukrainian intelligence intended to recruit a Russian military pilot for a monetary reward and the provision of Italian citizenship, to persuade him to fly and land a missile carrier in Ukraine,” the FSB said on its website, Reuters reported.