Russian pilot defects to Ukraine with an Mi-8 assault helicopter

Croatian Mi-8

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Ukrainian military intelligence claims to have engineered the defection over several months, resulting in Kyiv receiving a fully-intact Mil Mi-8 armed transport helicopter along with its crew.

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