I wonder what sort of munition they were shooting at Ukraine, that they had to come so close.
Probably using up whatever junk they still have left and got caught with their pants down using shorter range weapons.
X-22/KH-22 missiles. In fact, Ukraine shot them down for the first time last night. So Ukraine shot down the bomber as well as the X-22’s it launched. Ukraine hasn’t been able to shoot down X-22s until last night. So I assume new air defense was provided to Ukraine to protect Odesa.
The second Tu-22 wasn’t able to launch its X-22’s since it turned tail and ran after the first one was shot down.