Kiev’s troops attempted to carry out a helicopter landing near a besieged location in Donbass, the Defense Ministry has said
The Russian military has prevented an attempt by Ukraine to deploy special forces near the encircled town of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) in Donbass, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
Western media outlets, including Reuters and The Economist, reported on Friday that Kiev had used a US-supplied Black Hawk helicopter to attempt to deploy elite troops to the eastern part of Krasnoarmeysk.
The landing attempt was reportedly personally coordinated by the chief of Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR), Kirill Budanov.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that “a helicopter landing by a HUR special operations forces group was prevented approximately 1km northwest of the outskirts of the town of Krasnoarmeysk in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic.”
All 11 elite Ukrainian troops who descended from the helicopter were “destroyed,” it added.
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