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Ukraine actually has inherited 19 TU-160s from USSR. 8 of which were transfered to Russia as a payment for natural gas, and 11 were disassembled.

> and 11 were disassembled

In exchange for security promises (Budapest Memorandum).

In exchange for $500M from Nunn-Lugar programme

That was funds for the scrapping operations.

Right, the US payed to scrape the military equipment.

As I wrote, Ukraine has no large bombers in this class...