KYIV, March 11 — Three Mi-8 helicopter gunships rise up from a secret base in Ukraine and head at low altitude for the long-running battle for Bakhmut against Russian forces. As...
KYIV, March 11 — Three Mi-8 helicopter gunships rise up from a secret base in Ukraine and head at low altitude for the long-running battle for Bakhmut against Russian forces.
At just 23, Petro does not look much in his ill-fitting flak-jacket, but he has already flown about 50 combat missions. “The aim is to fly lower than the level of the general countryside so as not to be visible on Russian radars and they don't know that we are coming,” says Petro, a hoody covering all but his eyes.
“When we are 6,200 metres from the target, we rear up 20 degrees ... then we launch the rockets, 15 each side,” Petro explains. A woman walks past a destroyed BMP-2 tank after a shelling in the village of Chasiv Yar on March 11, 2023 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — AFP picThe toughest mission so far came on March 6 last year, in the Mykolaiv region in the south.
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