Kyiv said Monday that its forces destroyed a Russian military transport plane stationed at an airfield deep inside Russian territory over the weekend.Ukraine's defense intelligence agency said it had destroyed a Tu-134 transport aircraft overnight on Saturday.
The plane was located at a military airfield in the Orenburg region, which lies around 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the border with Ukraine."These Soviet-built airplanes are used mainly to transport the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry,"the Ukrainian defense intelligence agency said in a social media post.The agency posted a video of what it said was an arson attack, showing a fire burning inside an aircraft, but it did not provide details of how the alleged attack was carried out.There was no immediate comment from Moscow.Since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities have arrested hundreds of people for alleged sabotage and arson attacks on military, rail and other infrastructure sites.