Ukraine said it lured a Russian pilot commanding an Mi-8 helicopter to land at a Ukrainian airfield.
Ukraine said it lured a Russian pilot commanding an assault transport Mi-8 helicopter to land in Ukrainian territory and that the aircraft has been confiscated.
As reports circulated this week that a Russian Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter had landed at the Poltava military air base in Kharkiv, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence directorate told the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that the pilot tried to"run away" once they realized where they had landed.
The Mi-8 AMTSh is an armored assault version of the Mi-8AMT helicopter, and is primarily used to carry troops and cargo. It carries a number of ground-attack weapons, and can operate at night and in all weather conditions, according toKyrylo Budanov attends an event for the return of commanders of Ukrainian forces who held Mariupol's resistance in the city's Azovstal steel plant, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on July 8, 2023.
According to the publication,"as a result of a special operation" two crew members were killed, and the pilot and his family are in Ukraine. It notes that the pilot's family was"taken out of the Russian Federation in advance." "The Mi-8 remained in Ukraine along with parts for fighter planes that it was supposed to deliver to the Russians," the report said.
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