Ukraine has said it destroyed a Russian fighter jet and ammunition warehouse in a series of strikes over the weekend.

The first strike, carried out on Saturday, targeted the Morozovsk airfield in Russia’s southern Rostov region, Kyiv said.

An aviation weapons depot, known to store glide bombs, an Su-34 jet and two other, similar, aircraft were among the targets claimed to have been obliterated.

A second barrage of long-range missiles triggered a fire at a factory used to repair and store Russian military equipment, in the Kremlin-held city of Luhansk.

A purported third strike in Russia’s southern city of Azov set an oil depot on fire, according to Russian opposition media, but Kyiv has not confirmed this.

On Monday morning, Ukraine’s Hur military intelligence agency published satellite images that it said were evidence of a successful strike on the Morozovsk airfield, some 165 miles from the frontline.

“The enemy’s aviation arsenal was completely destroyed – from the secondary detonation of Russian ammunition, large areas of burnt earth can be seen on the territory of the airfield and around it,” the agency wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

“Cosmic intelligence data show that on August 3 a Su-34 fighter bomber was destroyed as a result of fire damage to the military airfield.”

Two more warplanes were damaged along with four “technical buildings” and two hangars, according to Hur’s report.

The satellite images published alongside the report show signs of damage to multiple buildings, as well as a crater and the remnants of what appears to have been a fighter jet.

The Telegraph could not independently verify Ukraine’s claims.

Multiple fires

Prior to the official confirmation of the attack, satellite data from Nasa’s Firms fire monitoring system showed at least 17 blazes at Morozovsk.

Unverified footage shared on social media showed huge secondary explosions, which could have been caused by ammunition, aviation fuel and rocket motors igniting after a strike.

Meanwhile, Artem Lysohor, the Ukrainian regional governor for the Luhansk region, said a fire had broken out at a repair and storage facility for military equipment, due to “poor work of air defences”.

He published images showing what appeared to be large plumes of smoke rising above a city skyline, which open-source researchers later geolocated to Luhansk.

Russian media outlets operating in the city, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014, reported there had been at least 12 explosions on Sunday.

Leonid Pasechnik, head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, said 12 Western missiles had been used.

“Four missiles were shot down by air defences on approach to the city,” Mr Pasechnik wrote on Telegram.

Russian sources later shared imagery of what was claimed to be part of a downed Scalp-EG, the French version of the British Storm Shadow.

The unverified photograph appeared to show the tip of a missile with a label, almost entirely intact, marked with “MBDA France”, which manufactures the Scalp-EG.

Mr Pasechnik said the debris from the intercepted missiles had resulted in “dry grass catching fire”, adding that warehouses with fuel tanks had also been hit.

A third strike caused a huge blaze at an oil depot in the Russian city of Rostov, the Russian Astra Telegram channel reported, as it shared video footage and images of the fire and a vast plume of smoke.

The strikes come as Ukraine steps up its attacks on Russian weapons and infrastructure.

It is the second time Morozovsk has been attacked since April, following a spate of Russian strikes using glide bombs.