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The Russian Black Sea Fleet has used an Orion drone for the first time to destroy a Ukrainian maritime drone. ISW reports that this could change the balance of power in the Black Sea.
The occupiers have reduced the use of helicopters in the Black Sea after several units were destroyed by Magura V5 maritime drones. Currently, Russia relies on aviation and drones to patrol the waters.
Magura V5 maritime drones destroyed two Russian Mi-8 helicopters near occupied Crimea. The third helicopter was damaged and managed to land.
A Magura V5 maritime drone with R-73 SeeDragon missiles destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter near Cape Tarkhankut. The second enemy helicopter was damaged and managed to reach the airfield.
A former KGB officer and a Russian police colonel are suspected of murdering Russian pilot Kuzminov, who hijacked an Mi-8 and fled to Ukraine. Shell casings from a Makarov pistol were found at the crime scene.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding back the Russian offensive in the Kharkiv sector. Five combat engagements took place over the last day, the enemy lost 112 soldiers and 77 pieces of equipment, including a Mi-8 helicopter.
There were 114 combat engagements on the Russian-Ukrainian front over the last day. Enemy attacks were most active in the Liman, Kurakhove and Pokrovsk sectors, where Ukrainian troops repelled most of the attacks.
The SBU, GUR and SSO attacked the Khanskaya military airfield in Russia. At the time of the attack, there were 57 Russian combat and training aircraft and helicopters, including Su-34, Su-35 and Mi-8.
Two 16-year-old teenagers set fire to an Mi-8 helicopter at an air base in Omsk for the promised $20,000. They received the task via Telegram, but never received the money.
A KAMAZ truck collided with a Kazan-Adler passenger train near Volgograd. 9 cars derailed, injuring at least 100 people, including children. Rescuers are working at the scene.
On July 21, the GUR hit Mi-28 and Ka-226 helicopters in Tomilino, Moscow Region. On July 24, an Mi-8 helicopter is destroyed at the Kryazh airfield in Samara as a result of sabotage.
In Crimea, large-scale fires broke out near Koktebel and Simferopol district, covering an area of 20-30 hectares, with more than 150 specialists and 25 pieces of equipment involved in extinguishing them.
Lukashenko announced the withdrawal of Belarusian troops from the border with Ukraine, saying tensions had been resolved.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Russian invaders have become more active and are using aviation, while the Ukrainian defenders have repelled 8 assault operations and continue to fight in the area of Stelmakhovka and Berestovo.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian may have been killed in a helicopter crash in the mountains, and rescue efforts were hampered by bad weather.
A missile strike on a Russian airfield in occupied Crimea could have damaged MiG-31 fighters. In total, 24 airplanes and six helicopters can be counted at this base.
At the Kryazh airfield in Samara, a Mi-8 transport helicopter worth $10-15 million, which Russia used to transport weapons and personnel in the war against Ukraine, was destroyed.
A Mi-24 helicopter of the Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia crashed in the village of Volodymyrivka, Gulrip district, russia-occupied Abkhazia, but all three crew members survived with non-life-threatening injuries.
Russian pilot Maksim Kuzminov was shot six times with a Makarov pistol, after which his body was run over by a car in a parking lot in southern Spain.
Russian helicopters Ka-52 and Mi-8 took to the skies over the temporarily occupied Crimea and Simferopol region.
A military Mi-8 helicopter crashed near the village of Rovenki in the Belgorod region of Russia, injuring the pilot.
An Mi-8 helicopter carrying shift workers crashed in the magadan region of russia after an engine malfunction, killing one person and seriously injuring two others, with 17 workers and three crew members on board.
In March 2022, Ukrainian scouts flew by helicopter over the heads of the Russian occupiers to reach the besieged Azovstal plant in Mariupol to deliver supplies and evacuate the wounded.
Local residents in the occupied Crimea heard explosions and saw Russian helicopters.
Russian troops are fighting within the town of Bohdanivka in the Bakhmut sector.
Croatia rejects Serbia's accusations of interfering in its internal affairs because of different views on Russia's war against Ukraine.
The Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who brought the stolen Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine, may have lived in the Spanish district of La Cala (Villajoyosa) for only a few weeks, according to interviews with locals and business representatives who did not recognize him.
The Main Intelligence Directorate confirms that pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who hijacked a Russian helicopter for Ukraine, was found dead in Spain.
Intercepted Russian radio communications confirmed the destruction by Ukrainian intelligence of a large Russian landing ship, the Caesar Kunikov, which was left with only an oily stain.
A Russian ship may have been attacked and damaged or destroyed off the coast of Crimea, judging by video footage and eyewitness reports of a fire, explosion, and machine gun fire in the area.