The helicopter's other crew members, who were unaware of the plan, were "eliminated," the agency said. A Russian helicopter pilot landed on a Ukrainian air base in what Ukrainian officials claimed ...

A top Ukrainian official has detailed for the first time how a Russian helicopter pilot defected by flying his Mi-8, along with unsuspecting crew members, to Ukraine. In an interview with Radio ...

A spokesman for Ukraine's GUR military intelligence said the agency deliberately lured the Russian pilot to land his Mi-8 helicopter at a Ukrainian airfield in the Kharkiv region. Two other crew ...

A Russian Mi-28 combat helicopter crashed in the Western Kaluga region on July 25, 2024, killing the crew, the Russian Defense Ministry said. More VITALIY TIMKIV/AFP/Getty Images "A commission of ...

Yury Butusov, a respected Ukrainian war journalist, said it was the first time a Ukrainian drone crew had destroyed a Russian helicopter mid-flight over the eastern Donetsk region. “The entire ...

The report did not state if Pashkov received or issued the orders to shoot down the target, which was later identified to be a Russian Mi-8 helicopter. Three crew members aboard the Mi-8 were ...

MOSCOW, Aug 31 (Reuters) - A Russian helicopter with three crew members and 19 passengers on board has gone missing in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, the emergencies ministry said on ...

July 25 (Reuters) - A Russian Mi-28 military helicopter crashed in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow on Thursday, killing its crew, the Interfax news agency said, citing Russia's defence ministry.

None of those on board survived, emergency services told Russian state media TASS on Sunday. The Mi-8T helicopter had 19 passengers and three crew members on board when it disappeared near a ...

MOSCOW – A Russian helicopter with three crew members and 19 passengers on board has gone missing in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, the emergencies ministry said on Aug 31. The Mi-8T ...

They spotted the 12-ton, three-crew Russian helicopter—which performs attack, transport and medical-evacuation missions—while it was still close to the ground. “Caught at the moment of ...