A helicopter crashed in the town of Klintsy in southern Russia, according to Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region. He did not mention the fate of the crew members but said a woman was injured and hospitalized. Five houses were damaged, but the reason behind the crash was not elaborated.
However, Vladimir Rogov, a Moscow-installed official in the Russian-controlled part of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, contradicted Bogomaz’s statement and claimed that four Russian aircraft had been shot out of the sky, including two MI-8 helicopters and an SU-35 fighter jet and an SU-34 fighter bomber. He said that the crew of the helicopters and the SU-34 had died, but he did not provide any further details.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on social media that Russians were upset because they had lost two fighter jets and two helicopters. Meanwhile, western allies have been providing increasingly powerful weapons to Ukraine, with Britain announcing that it would send Storm Shadow missiles, becoming the first country to send longer-range arms to Kyiv.
