Kyiv has repeatedly targeted Moscow's aircraft inside Russia, including helicopters it says the Kremlin used to attack its territory.
Three helicopters located at bases deep inside Russia were damaged in under a week by sabotage operations orchestrated by Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency, Kyiv has said.An Mi-8 multipurpose helicopter 'burned down' at the Kryazh military airfield close to the southwestern city of Samara on Wednesday, the GUR said in a statement published on Saturday.
On Saturday, an anonymous source described as part of the GUR told Ukrainian media that Kyiv had attacked three Russian military airfields and an oil refinery overnight, damaging a Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber aircraft.The Tu-22M3 was at Olenya airbase in the northwestern Russian region of Murmansk that borders Norway, Ukrainian media reported. The base is also approximately 125 miles from the Finnish border, according to Ukrainian outlets. Both countries are NATO members.
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