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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 po…

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