Putin Doomsday Plane base faces bomb strike as saboteurs claim victory | World News

Saboteurs believed to be linked to Ukraine have blown up two airplanes and a helicopter in Russia.

The audacious strike took place at a military base where president Vladimir Putin keeps his Il-60 Doomsday aircraft, which he would deploy in the event of a nuclear war.

Explosives were placed on the closely guarded Chkalovsky Air Base, some 20 miles north west of Moscow, where the Kremlin’s the most sensitive reconnaissance jets are housed.

Damage was inflicted on AN-148 and IL-20 aircrafts, both belonging to the 354th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

A MI-28N helicopter, which had previously been engaged in taking down drones, also suffered a hit in the tail.

Images released by Ukrainian intelligence today show the damage, which caused ‘quite a bit of hysteria in the higher military ranks’ on Monday.

Russian authorities are currently on a hunt for the unidentified saboteurs thought to be linked with Ukraine.

According to the defence ministry, they are working to ‘limit the dissemination of information’ about the incident in the local media.

‘The event caused quite a bit of hysteria in the higher [Russian] military corridors – government planes, so-called Doomsday planes and special [reconnaissance] aircraft are based at the airfield,’ said the post from Ukraine’s military intelligence.

‘Unknown persons planted explosives and detonated an An-148 and Il-20 aircraft – both belong to the 354th special purpose aviation regiment at the airfield.’

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