The Ukrainian military showed the wreckage of a Russian attack helicopter that was shot down on August 10 in the Kursk region.

Footage of the wreckage of the Russian aircraft was released by the press service of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces.

The Ka-52 was hit during a combat mission by a man-portable air defense system. Russian sources reported that the fatal shot had been made “at point blank range.”

The fact that the pile of charred wreckage belongs to this particular helicopter is evidenced by the surviving element of the tail section, which can be easily identified by the uniform and standard livery of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

According to Telegram channels associated with Russian aviation, the entire crew of the Ka-52, consisting of a pilot and a navigator-operator, was killed.

The Russian helicopter was hit near the Russian-Ukrainian border and crashed just 1.5 kilometers away. The site is located 2 kilometers east of the village of Oleshnya, the Kursk region.

A few days earlier, during the Kursk operation, the Ukrainian military also shot down another attack helicopter of this type, the loss of which was confirmed elsewhere.

Propaganda Telegram channels reported that on August 6, a Ka-52 helicopter had made an emergency landing after having been hit by an anti-aircraft missile.

As a result, the helicopter commander was killed, and the navigator was seriously injured and hospitalized.

In addition to traditional anti-aircraft weapons, modified FPV attack drones were used for the first time in air defense in the Kursk region.

FPV attack drones shot down a Russian Mi-28MN attack helicopter and a Mi-8 multirole helicopter that were performing combat missions in the combat zone.

As previously reported, during the operation, the Ukrainian military captured, probably, the largest group of Russian POWs of all time, consisting of 102 people.