The Freedom of Russia Legion committed sabotage by setting fire to equipment at a military airport with MiG-31 fighter jets.

The Legion’s press service reported these news on its social media page.

The Russian resistance movement announced the destruction of several units of military equipment at the Bolshoye Savino airport, which belongs to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Freedom of Russia Legion entered the territory of the military facility and burned vehicles. In particular, the video shows the process of setting two KAMAZ trucks on fire.

Bolshoye Savino is a dual-purpose airport used as a civilian facility and a permanent deployment point for tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

It is reported that MiG-31 fighter jets from the Sokol aviation group of the 6980th Aviation Base of the Russian Aerospace Forces (military unit 69806-2) are based at this airport.

According to publicly available data, up to 24 MiG-31DZ and MiG-31BS long-range fighter jets are based at the military facility.

This is not the first such sabotage since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the end of 2022, unidentified persons infiltrated the Russian Veretye military airfield in the Pskov region, where Ka-52 attack helicopters are based.

According to the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, two helicopters exploded and were destroyed at the Veretye military airfield on the night of October 31 as a result of sabotage. Two other combat aircraft were severely damaged.

In September 2023, the saboteurs planted explosives and blew up aircraft and a combat helicopter at the Russian Chkalovsky Air Base in the Moscow region.

Unidentified persons planted explosives at the airfield and blew up An-148 and Il-20 aircraft (both belonging to the 354th Special Forces Aviation Regiment), as well as a Mi-28N helicopter, which had previously been actively involved in shooting down loitering munitions over the Moscow region.

And at the beginning of 2024, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine released footage of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber being set on fire at a military airfield in Chelyabinsk. The fighter-bomber belonged to the aviation regiment of the 21st Mixed Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Forces.