A column of Russian military equipment. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 25 The Russian Ministry of Defense released footage of Mi-8 helicopters patrolling Russian military convoys in Ukraine on Monday. The video shows the helicopters taking off from an airfield. Then the view from the low-flying vehicle is shown: the crews are watching the road along which the convoy of Russian trucks is traveling through the sights of machine guns. width=»640″ height=»360″ frameborder=»0″ allowfullscreen=»1″ allow=»autoplay; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture»>As the Mi-8 pilot, who introduced himself as Ivan, said, the main goal of army aviation in this order is to timely open a combat position preparing for an attack on a convoy, transfer it immediately. «If there is obvious preparation for an attack, we will immediately crush this firing point. secondly, it is the moral support of the squad that moves on the column. It is much calmer when we walk from above. I sit high — I look far away. I understand, I warn you. We work in conjunction: basically — we detect, transmit, and already from below they press, or if, as a rule, it turns out to find out everything earlier, then we attack ourselves,» the pilot said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. as of 24.04.2022 InfographicView
