Ukraine’s intelligence service said a naval drone had struck down a Russian military helicopter for the first time and forced another one to return to an airfield after being hit.

Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) claimed that a naval drone had successfully destroyed a Russian helicopter in the Black Sea. Another machine, which was able to return to its base, was damaged in the attack.

A Ukrainian sea drone has destroyed a Russian helicopter off the coast of Crimea for the first time. Footage of the attack shared by HUR, Kyiv’s military intelligence, showed the drone bobbing on the seas as the aircraft manoeuvred in the skies above. Plumes of water splashed up next to the Magura V5 drone as Russian fire hit the sea around it.

Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported a groundbreaking military achievement: a Magura V5 naval drone equipped with R-73 missiles successfully shot down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter near Cape Tarkhankut,

Two Russian helicopters were downed in a recent strike by the Ukrainian-made Magura V5 naval strike drones, Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) reported on its Telegram channel. HUR earlier said on Dec.

Russian state newspaper Izvestia says one of its freelance reporters has been killed in a drone strike near the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Moscow has accused Ukraine's military of deliberately targeting Alexander Martemyanov.

Russian forces launched 103 drones from three directions towards Ukraine on the night of January 5. Air defense shot down more than half of them, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A special unit of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's Main Intelligence Directorate has destroyed a Russian helicopter for the first time in military history.