R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile

I was checking the Neptune wikipedia page and the Ukrainians designate their Neptune-ER the "Long Neptune" while the Russians call it the "Neptune-MD", from the article:

The new land attack variant is called Neptune-MD by Russian forces. Ukrainians call it the Long Neptune. On 21 June 2024, a Neptune struck Shahed drone depot and training facility in Krasnodar.[37]
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While this variant has a range of 620 miles (Greater than the Taurus 350's 310 mile range) they'd initially been looking at a land-attack variant with 250 mile range. Anyway with the 600+ mile range of the new land-attack variant does this mean that Ukraine can now directly attack the Kerch Strait bridge with these new missiles?

Anyway here's this new video from "The Military Show" channel concerning it, in the video it was pointed out that the shortest airline route between Ukraine and Moscow is 523 miles (The Neptune-ER has a max range of 621 miles).
 
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"An eye for an eye, a drone for a drone, a cruise missile for a cruise missile." When is that ceasefire supposed to start ?
 
Archibald said:
When is that ceasefire supposed to start ?
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It's supposed to be soon but Putin is trying to put conditions on it that are completely unacceptable to the Ukrainians AND Putin will find a way to violate it as soon as he can.

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Wonder if any bombers were damaged too, probably a lot of debris and fire raining down.
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I wouldn't be surprised at all if some have been damaged and/or destroyed which would be a good thing especially if they're the irreplaceable Tu-22Ms or Tu-95s.

Hopefully this has put a huge dent in the numbers of AS-15 Kents the Russians have stockpiled.
 
Engels is a base for Tu-95s and Tu-160, and apparently a few of both were present. The explosion damaged homes outside the base, so I could easily see modest blast damage to the bombers, but probably nothing decisive or detectable by satellite. Some broken fairings and antenna, cracked windows, etc.
 
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If that is true then the Russian airforce is less one irreplaceable Tu-95.
 
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Can someone provide any proof that Long Neptune was used or bombers were damaged by them?
 

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