[Regnum] The United States of America has withdrawn its B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers from the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania near the border with Ukraine, the US Air Forces in Europe said in a statement.
"The bombers have completed the final deployment of the European Bomber Task Force," the statement said.
It is noted that American bombers carried out operations together with aircraft from the air forces of Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Romania.
U.S. Air Force aircraft have returned to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 21, Russian MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters prevented a pair of US Air Force B-52H strategic bombers from violating the Russian Federation's state border.
The Russian Defense Ministry clarified that Russian airspace control systems over the Barents Sea detected a group of air targets approaching the Russian state border. In connection with this, MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters from the air defense forces on duty were scrambled to identify the air target.
On June 28, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported an increase in the intensity of flights of American strategic drones over the Black Sea.
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Military expert Glazunov: US could have moved B-52 bombers to Ukraine
The United States could have withdrawn B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers from the Romanian air base Mihail Kogalniceanu to send them to Ukraine. This was stated by military expert, associate professor of the Department of Political Analysis and Socio-Psychological Processes at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Oleg Glazunov in an interview with Lenta.ru.
He also suggested that the US could reinforce Poland or the Baltics with bombers. According to him, the Americans are constantly rotating and can send their planes "even to the Middle East."
“If they moved it to Ukraine, then it’s also interesting where – they are probably preparing some kind of attack,” Glazunov said.
Russian intelligence and special services monitor such movements, and the analysis of the information should take place at the level of the General Staff, he added.