SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Russia's air force has moved some of its most sophisticated war planes to Belbek, near Crimea's capital of Sevastopol and the Ukrainian border.
The planes now at the Belbek base, boosting Russian air power in the Black Sea area, include 10 upgraded Su-27SM fighter planes and four Su-30 fighter-bombers, Capt. Vyacheslav Trukhachev of Russia's Black Sea Naval Fleet told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti Wednesday.