An officer found the pilot “seated in the cockpit performing pre-flight checks,” the incident report by airport police said. It said the pilot gave off ”a strong odor of what seemed to be ...

Coincidence or not, the optics are convenient for Russia. The pact serves as a pointed reminder to the West that the world is changing, and that, in Moscow's view, the US-led rules-based global ...

As the Ukrainian authorities warned, there are 7 Russian Tu-22 bombers and 6 Tu-95 bombers in the air. Cruise missiles were launched from warships in the Black Sea and MiG-31K warplanes ...

On Jan. 8, Ukrainian drones flew at least 400 miles to strike near the Russian air force’s Engels bomber base in the city ... contracts—from [first-person-view] drones to long-range ones ...

(Adds missing word "court" in headline, corrects spelling of the word "to" in paragraph 4) MOSCOW :A Russian court fined Alphabet's Google 8 billion roubles ($77.9 million) on Tuesday for not ...

Russian firefighters have reportedly put out a blaze after five days at an oil site which supplies an air base for Vladimir Putin’s nuclear bomber fleet. Regional governor Roman Busargin said ...

A fire at a Russian oil depot supplying the country's long-range bombers is raging for a fifth day, according to the regional governor, after Ukraine targeted the site with drone strikes.

Ukrainian officials reported a huge fire at the Kombinat Kristall oil depot, which provides fuel to the Engels-2 military airfield in the Saratov region, where Russia’s strategic bomber fleet is ...

Ukraine confirmed responsibility for a strike against a Russian oil base in the city of Engels. Meanwhile, Donald Trump said he hoped to end the war in Ukraine before he reached six months in office.

Engels-2 is home to the 121st Guards Sevastopol and 184th Bomber Aviation Regiments, flying respectively Russia’s supersonic Tu-22M3 (NATO: “Backfire”) and the turboprop Tu-95MS (NATO: “Bear”) bombers ...

Russian bombers based there include Tu-160s and Tu-95s, known respectively by NATO as "Blackjack" and "Bear" bombers. Russia calls the Tu-160s "White Swan." The planes are operated from the Engels ...

the governor of Russia's Saratov region, said early on Wednesday that there had been "damage" to an unspecified industrial building near the base, which houses nuclear-capable bombers. Several ...