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A Russian attack drone has destroyed an American-made UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter belonging to Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence at Zhulyany airport in Kyiv.
The attack took place on September 4, but video footage showing the strike was published five days later by LostArmour.info, a Russian open-source intelligence channel.
The strike was carried out by the 50th Separate Brigade “Varyag,” part of Russia’s Unmanned Systems Forces, using a Geran-4 Seeker attack drone. The jet-powered, one-way attack drone can reach speeds exceeding 500 kilometers per hour, which makes it difficult to intercept. The drone, which has a reported range of more than 850 kilometers, is equipped with an artificial intelligence-powered optical targeting system.
According to LostArmour.info, the drone operator spotted two Black Hawk helicopters at the airport along with a vehicle approaching one of the aircraft. That helicopter was then struck.
Satellite imagery reviewed by the website showed a burned helicopter pad at Zhulyany sometime between August 28 and September 8, the group said.
The Black Hawk was one of two UH-60A aircraft operated by Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, commonly known by its Ukrainian acronym GUR.
The agency received its first Black Hawk in February 2023, when a decommissioned United States Army helicopter built in 1980 was bought from a private aviation company through a crowdfunding campaign and delivered to the directorate’s special operations units.
A second UH-60A arrived in Ukraine in spring 2024, painted in an olive-green livery distinct from the first aircraft’s blue-black colors.
The GUR has sought to acquire more of the helicopters. Nevertheless, the agency’s efforts have been so far not that successful.
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europe is impotent and frightened, like little girls. now they want ukraine to throw women into meat grinder, what disgusting human beings.
ukraine will be reunited with russia 🇷🇺 again by the end of the year or beginning of next summer.
why would russia want all of it?
western ukraine is hostile to russia 🇷🇺 and will remain so with the neo nazi stepan bandera remnants in power.
remove the nazis in power. then many/most ukranians will glady rejoin their brothers and sisters in russia.
not so gladly, because brainwashing process reached terminal stage. but if to answer why, just look at border with poland and find one town named rava-russkaya. it was found in the middle of 15th century when region of galitzia (red rus is another name) was in poland under the name of województwo ruskie (russian region in translation). poles have invented the ukrainization policy much after. austrians have started to implement it in the end of 19 century against local rusins and poles.
this is russian land, though it was outside borders of russia for 400 years. stalin took lvov back in 1939 and completed the reconqest started in 1480, when ruler of russia ioann iii the great proclaimed himself a tsar — the first sovereign ruler since 1237 (mongolian invasion). he was the first emperor actually, because tsar derives from cesar — imperial dynasty in rome. he married niece of the last east roman emperor and took 2-head eagle (symbol of ere), coat of arms in russia till now.
isn’t ukrainian intelligence an oxymoron?
or elite forces of ukros. i’m smiling every time when hear or read about elite hohols. it’s like “elite prostitutes”, “smart biden”, “honest trump”.
black hawk down, the sequel.
black pig/pork down.
why are there so many targets even on that tarmac if they have been at war for 4+ years now…someone is either highly incompetent or this war is a stage show to de pop ulate. i’ve not ever seen that many aircraft in one place in the entire time this has been going on.
the other targets are old decommissioned civilian aircrafts. waste of ammo to blow them
they are not flying for years, there is no-fly zone since 2022.
i see nothing.
“i see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil when it comes to ukraine.”
ursula danderlion
i penetrate many slav widows and orphans…heheheh
what mental hospital are you in? i’d like to send a get well card.
strange to see so many aircrafts not destroyed. why?
attempt to take off will end with a missile strike, if those planes are able to fly due technical reasons. so no one flying after establishing no-fly zone in 2022. except military units of course. you see what’s happened when they tried to cover a unit among others — no chance to survive. aa missiles, uavs (“lancet”), fab can fly on 200 km now. kiev is placed ~100 km from border. to land here was suicidal choice. only civilian copters of emergency services fly there as it was before.