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| A Mil Mi-8 aircraft involved in a raid on a Russian village on Thursday was hit while returning to base, the Russian military said | A Mil Mi-8 aircraft involved in a raid on a Russian village on Thursday was hit while returning to base, the Russian military said |
| A Ukrainian military helicopter that was used to attack a Russian village on Thursday was hit with an S-400 long-range missile as it was returning to base, the Russian Defense Ministry has stated. | |
| The Mil Mi-8 helicopter was hit near the town of Gorodnya in Ukraine’s Chernigov Region, the ministry said at a morning press briefing on Friday. The town is located around 30km from the Russian border. | |
| The helicopter, according to the ministry, was used in the April 14 attack on the village of Klimovo in Russia’s Bryansk Region on the other side of the border, leaving seven residents injured, including a two-year-old boy and his pregnant mother. Russia said two Ukrainian helicopters fired at least six missiles at the village after approaching at low altitude. | |
| The Defense Ministry also said it delivered a cruise missile strike on a military target in the Ukrainian capital and will deliver more strikes “in response to any terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage conducted by the Kiev nationalistic regime on Russian territory.” | |
| Russian warplanes hit seven targets in Ukraine overnight, the update said. One of them was described as a unit of “mercenaries from a Polish private military company” in the Kharkov region. The ministry claimed up to 30 Polish mercenaries were killed. | |
| Russia attacked its neighbor in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, signed in 2014, and Moscow'’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered Minsk Protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state. | |
| The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force. |