A Russian Tu-134 military transport aircraft was set on fire at a military airfield in Orenburg Oblast overnight on Oct. 13, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) reported.
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A Russian Tu-134 military transport aircraft was set on fire at a military airfield in Orenburg Oblast overnight on Oct. 13
The plane belonged to the 117th Military Transport Aviation Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces
Such Soviet aircraft are used, in particular, to transport the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry
On the night of Oct. 13, a Tu-134 military transport plane was burned at the Orenburg-2 airfield in Russia.
In the night of October 13, at the military airfield Orenburg-2 in Russia, a Tu-134 aircraft was destroyed. These Soviet-era aircraft are used, in particular, for transporting the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry.
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