Ukrainian authorities said today that they destroyed a Russian military transport plane over the weekend at a base in the Orenburg region, in the southern Urals, far from the border with Russia.
The attack, which was carried out on the night between Saturday and Sunday, is part of a campaign of attacks by Ukraine on Russian soil with the aim of disrupting the logistics of Russian forces that have been relentlessly bombing Ukraine since February 2022.
"An enemy plane has burned down. A Tu-134 military transport plane has been destroyed in Russia," announced the Main Directorate of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service at the Ministry of Defense.
It is added that the plane was hit at the Russian military airport Orenburg-2, in the south of the Urals, about 1.000 kilometers from the border between Ukraine and Russia.
The Ukrainian ministry released pictures showing the plane on fire.
The plane, a Tupolev Tu-134, belonged to the 117th Military Transport Aviation Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces and to that category of Soviet-designed aircraft used, among other things, to transport the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the ministry added.
Russia did not react to that attack.
In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an offensive on the Ukrainian border region of Kharkiv, in order to create a "buffer zone" and avoid Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil.
However, this has not stopped the Ukrainian military from continuing these strikes, with Kiev saying each time it has targeted military and industrial targets used by the Russian military to support its invasion of Ukraine.
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