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Saturday, April 05, 2014

Ukraine Puts Mothballed Mig-29 Fighter Jets Back in Service

MiG-29A FulcrumSeveral mothballed Mikoyan Mig-29 Fulcrum fourth-generation fighter jets were returned to combat service in western Ukraine, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday.

“Specialists of our team have already returned several planes to service,” the ministry quoted an unnamed commander of an Air Force unit near Ivano-Frankivsk as saying. “We are now conducting test flights. Soon, more mothballed fighter jets will take off again.”

The state of Ukraine’s armed forces came under close scrutiny when the new government took office in late February, after months of violent uprising.

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