Under the nose of the Russian Ministry of Defense: images of Ukraine destroying a Ka-32 helicopter in Moscow have appeared

Ukrainian military intelligence has published a video on its Telegram account showing a Russian helicopter being set on fire.

“On the night of April 26 An enemy Ka-32 multipurpose helicopter burned down at the Ostafyev Airfield of the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow. The airfield is owned by the Russian Ministry of Defense and is jointly operated by Gazpromavia, a company owned by Gazprom. The destroyed aircraft was used by the aggressor state in the interests of the Moscow Aviation Center, primarily to support the operations of the Russian occupation army,” the GUR statement said.

It belongs to the Ministry of Defense of Russia

Under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ostafyev Airfield was established as an airfield of the USSR NKVD in 1934.

The airport is also used by the Ostafjevo International Business Airport of the same name, which serves business aviation aircraft. in 2000 the airport was reconstructed and opened for civilian flights.

The first Russian Tu-22M3 bomber was shot down

15 minutes reminds that on April 19 For the first time since the beginning of the war, Ukraine managed to shoot down a Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bomber that could attack Ukraine with hard-to-intercept Ch-22 missiles. This is the first successful destruction of a strategic bomber in the air during a combat flight during the entire Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The historic destruction of the first Tu-22MZ bomber was the result of a military intelligence (GUR) operation in cooperation with the Ukrainian Air Force.

Before that, a Tu-22MZ bomber struck Ukraine at a distance of about 300 km from the territory controlled by Ukraine. It was shot down by the same weapon that previously shot down the Russian A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft. According to NV sources, it was an S-200 anti-aircraft system.

The bomber managed to fly to the Stavropol region, where he fell and crashed.

When the Tu-22M3 plane crashed, four of its pilots ejected, two were found alive, one was killed, and another is being sought.