Ukraine’s elite “Ghost” unit attacked a Russian Black Sea fleet , destroying a pair of amphibious war planes for the first time in the war, officials said Monday.

Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR) said the Ghosts carried out the operation on Sunday, aiming at Moscow’s naval aviation equipment parked in the occupied Crimea peninsula .

Footage from the strike shows how the drones swooped into the military base and slammed against the Be-12 “Chaika” warplanes, with the assault also taking out an Mi-8 helicopter. 3

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“This is the first ever destruction of Be-12 aircraft in history,” the HUR touted on social media.

The Be-12 Chaika, seagull in Russia, is a Soviet-era amphibious plane still in use along the Black Sea that can detect and take out enemy submarines.

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