Flint, a special forces officer of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, told ICTV about how Ukrainians flew to besieged Mariupol in 2022 and got to Azovstal, UNN reports .
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They flew over the heads of the occupiers, and could even see their faces... Of course, it was a secret, no one knew about it at all... The chances of returning were slim. A flight of a lifetime and lasting several minutes.
Flint, a special forces officer of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine who took part in an airborne breakthrough to Mariupol in March 2022, when the city was already surrounded by Russian invaders. He told some details of how the scouts and aviators got to the garrison, which was holding the line at the Azovstal plant and at that time was in critical need of ammunition, communications equipment, medicines and evacuation of the wounded.
A pair of Mi-8 helicopters flew in radio silence mode at a critically low altitude - right over the heads of the Russian invaders, the DIU specialists told journalists.
The main criterion for participation in the operation was the soldier's desire. [...] There was no exact protocol of action at that time, because it was the first operation, the first flight
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