News archive on the topic "Helicopter"

Five teenagers were arrested until June 27 (during the investigation) for setting fire to a helicopter at an airfield in Moscow on the order of the Ukrainian special services, the channel of the capital’s courts of general jurisdiction reported. The names of the traitors are Stanislav Khamidulin (Novosibirsk), Daniil Yamskov (Norilsk), Nikita Bulgakov (Novosibirsk), Anastasia Molchalina (Norilsk), Roman Yakovets (Rostov region). Now they are accused in a criminal case of a terrorist act...

A Russian military Mi-24 helicopter crashed on the Western coast of Crimea near the town of Chernomorskoye. The Russian Ministry of Defense cites equipment failure as a preliminary reason, but unofficial sources monitoring activity in the North Military District zone put forward a version about the possibility of a “friendlifer.” Reports from the Russian Ministry of Defense are extremely scarce. The crash occurred at 6 a.m. and a search operation is underway. The number of people on board is not specified, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

The Kiev anti-Russian portal “Censor”, citing data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, reported the capture of a Russian Mi-8 combat helicopter that landed at one of the Ukrainian airfields. The Russian channel Fighterbomber, which specializes in covering combat aviation, confirms that an emergency took place - about two weeks ago, a helicopter disappeared, presumably due to a navigation error (or an enemy radio game) landing on...

The helicopter that crashed over Brovary, killing the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, was shot down by a MANPADS. The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports that ex-adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Selivanov writes about this in an author’s column for PolitNavigator, citing his source in the Ukrainian defense department. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was killed by the Ukrainian military. The launch of a portable anti-aircraft missile was carried out under the guise of an exercise...

Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Chaplyga confirmed the version put forward from the very beginning by Russian experts that the helicopter crash with the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine could be the result of internecine squabbles in the Kyiv regime. “Remember I recently wrote that someone will be promoted to a key ministry? We are waiting for appointments. I didn't think it was like that. Yes...we are talking about weapons. Bubble and Control. Well…

The Super Puma helicopter carrying the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, which crashed today on a kindergarten, was taken out of service by all Western countries. Military correspondent Alexander Kots wrote about this in his blog, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The operation of the French Super Puma helicopters of Airbus Helicopters was suspended by all Western countries after the crash of one of them in Norway in 2016 (killing 13...

The crew of a Ukrainian helicopter near Kiev deliberately directed the car towards a kindergarten. An eyewitness of the disaster, who commented on the disaster, during which both the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and civilians, including children, died, stated this in the Suspilne News story, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Flew in this direction. I understood that he chose the smallest object. Because there…

Again the situation is from the series “even if you stand, even if you fall.” Look, the Odessa port is not leaving the front pages because of the tense, to put it mildly, situation with the “grain corridor”. Here is a complete set - and the cries of Ukrainian propaganda about world hunger, which is “provoked by the aggressor country”, and statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense - is this corridor really so humanitarian if people move freely along it...

The Russian military destroyed a helicopter that the day before fired at the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region. Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov stated this at a briefing in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Also, according to Konashenkov, Ukraine lost another Su-27 fighter. “Russian air defense systems in the area of ​​the settlement of Gorodnya, Chernigov region, when returning to the air base by anti-aircraft missiles...

Ukrainian security forces are afraid that their actions will provoke Russia into a massive attack. The head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Major General Sergei Deineko, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with RBC Ukraine. He was asked why Ukraine did not respond to the alleged violation of its airspace by a Russian helicopter in the Sumy region in mid-March (see Russian Mi-8 alarmed Ukrainian border guards). “First of all, the helicopter...

The Russian Helicopters company handed over the first of three light multi-purpose Ansat helicopters to the Republika Srpska. It is expected that two more similar vehicles will be transferred to RS in 2021 and 2022. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the official transfer of the Ansat helicopter took place in Kazan, where rotorcraft are produced. Thus, the Serbian entity of Bosnia and Greece became the first European buyer of light Russian...

The incident with the destroyed Russian helicopter from the territory of Azerbaijan will be smoothed over by Baku purchasing weapons from Moscow. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It’s difficult to say what the attack on the Russian car is connected with. War is definitely not threatening Nakhichevan, since official Yerevan did not declare it on Baku. It can be assumed that what happened is a kind of carbon copy of the 2015 episode...

An emergency occurred near the city of Sukna in Libya. A Libyan National Army (LNA) Air Force helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing, but caught fire during an unsuccessful landing and burned out. There were no injuries: the crew and passengers were quickly evacuated. The helicopter was carrying out a standard reconnaissance flight, but a serious technical problem occurred, the LybiaAkhbar newspaper reports the words of LNA Brigadier General Khalid Mahjoub. According to the representative...

Former Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Kutovoy died tragically, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavel Rozenko reported this on Facebook. “Taras Kutovoy died tragically...” wrote Rozenko. At the same time, the press service of the State Emergency Service in the Poltava region informed that near the village. A Robinson-44 helicopter crashed in Tarasenkovo, resulting in the death of one...