New Delhi, July 18 -- Ukraine's SBU struck a Tu-95MS strategic bomber at Russia's Engels air base in Saratov Oblast overnight July 16-17, severing the aircraft's tail section and inflicting critical damage. The strike continues Ukraine's deep-penetration campaign against Russia's strategic bomber fleet, which previously disabled 34 percent of Moscow's cruise missile carrier capacity.

KYIV - A Russian Tu-95MS bomber sat with its tail section completely severed at Engels air base on Friday morning. The wreckage lay 800 kilometres from Ukraine's border, the clearest evidence yet that Kyiv's deep-strike campaign has reached Russia's most consequential long-range platforms.

Ukraine's Security Service, the SBU, confirmed the strike in a state...