2024-07-26 09:47:22
According to the initial reports of the Ministry of Defense, the accident occurred due to a technical failure. The ministry confirmed: “The Mi-28 helicopter was conducting a normal flight. Unfortunately, the crew did not survive. Preliminary investigations show that the cause of the accident is a technical failure.”
This incident followed a similar tragedy on May 12 last year, when another Mi-28 helicopter crashed in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea during a scheduled training flight. The crash, which the Ministry of Defense initially classified as a training accident, killed both pilots. However, subsequent information revealed that the helicopter was accidentally shot down by Russian air defense forces during a Ukrainian drone attack.
The Mi-28 is a Russian all-weather, day and night military two-seat attack helicopter. It has been in use since the late 1980s and is designed to perform a variety of military missions, including search-and-destroy operations against armored vehicles, low-speed aerial targets (such as drones) and personnel, according to the Defense Blog.
According to Militarnyj, According to Telegram channel Mash, a Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter “hunted” Ukrainian drones in Russian airspace. He returned from a combat mission on the border with the Bryansk region to his place of deployment.
According to one of the versions, a fire broke out in the cockpit during the flight due to an engine failure.
On Thursday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the air defense forces of the aggressor country shot down four drones over Kursk and three over the Belgorod region. It is likely that the crashed Mi-28 helicopter was used to intercept these drones, Militarnyj writes.
Recently, the Russians have actively used this type of helicopter to intercept Ukrainian attack drones.
For example, on July 5 At night, a Russian Mi-28 helicopter made an emergency landing in the Rostov region after a collision with a drone. The high temperature of the exhaust gases started burning the grass around the helicopter. The crew left the helicopter and were evacuated.
2024-07-26 09:47:22