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The Ukrainian Armed Forces used Mi-8MSB along with Mi-24s in operations against separatists in Eastern Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War. On 29 May 2014, a Ukrainian National Guard Mi-8 was brought down by Russian separatist forces in Donbas using a MANPADS near Slavyansk with 12 personnel, including an Army general, killed and one ...
Ukraine’s military has released a video of the burning wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter on the war’s southern frontline, saying the aircraft was shot down by paratroopers. “The Russian ...
Operation Synytsia (Ukrainian: Операція «Синиця», romanized: Operatsiia "Synytsia", lit. 'tit') was an operation conducted by Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence to facilitate the defection of Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot Maxim Kuzminov (Russian: Максим Кузьминов).
The Ukrainian military said that an Mil Mi-8 had been shot down by pro-Russian rebels in the east near Sloviansk, killing all nine people on board. [43] 7 August 2014: Pro-Russian forces shot down an Mi-8MT, call sign Yellow 62, in Manuilivka, Donetsk Oblast. [44] [4] 19 August 2014: A Mil Mi-8 was shot down near the village of Heorhiivka ...
Vadym, a 23-year-old Ukrainian pilot, flew harrowing missions to all three of these legendary battles in his Soviet-era MI-8 helicopter. In GoPro footage Vadym shared with Scripps News, he shows ...
During the first four months of the War in Donbas in 2014, Ukraine suffered considerable losses, including four Mi-24 gunships and two Mi-8 helicopter transports. [7] Due the widespread availability of surface-to-air missiles amongst the separatist militias , the UAA was forced to restrict the use of its assets. [ 1 ]
The Mi-8 helicopter poured sand into the exposed core of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, but radiation glow from the sun's rays blinded the pilot's vision making the crane cables difficult to see, the helicopter's blades hit the cables, and then crashed. Outcome: 4 Deaths form the Cup-2: Deaths: 4 Deaths form the Cup-2 crew of Mi-8 Incident crash. 1.
On 14 April 2022, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed that a Ukrainian Mi-8 was shot down by a S-400 near Horodnia, Chernihiv Oblast on its way to an air base following an attack on Russian territory near Klimovo, Bryansk Oblast. [123] [124] In August 2022, Ukraine claimed that a 92N6E radar used in the S-400 SAM system was destroyed in ...