In the early hours of Saturday, July 26, a Russian Su-27UB combat training fighter jet was destroyed at the Armavir airfield in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Ukraine.

HUR published corresponding video footage of the incident.

The aircraft belonged to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Local residents reported that communication was lost in nearby settlements following the explosion.

The Su-27UB is a twin-seat combat training variant of the Soviet-designed Su-27 multirole fighter jet. It is used primarily for pilot instruction but retains full combat capabilities, allowing it to engage in both training and real combat missions.

The Armavir airfield is primarily used for training cadets of the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots.

“Resistance to the Kremlin regime inside Russia is growing,” Ukrainian intelligence stated, adding that “every crime against the Ukrainian people will be met with proper retribution.”

Earlier, in June Kyiv Post reported that an audacious long-distance operation mounted by Ukraine’s intelligence services attacked at least five airfields, in Russia’s Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ryazan, and Amur regions, where strategic bombers and surveillance aircraft were located.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has officially confirmed it carried out a major drone strike against Russian military airfields, damaging or destroying what it claims is 34 percent of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers, in a long-planned covert operation codenamed “Spiderweb.”

The SBU said the strikes, which targeted airfields housing Russia’s long-range bombers, resulted in an estimated $7 billion in damage – a figure that has not yet been independently verified.