INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter crashed off the coast of annexed Crimea on Wednesday morning, according to a Defense Ministry
Moscow time, the Mi-24 helicopter crashed near the western coast of the republic of Crimea while performing a scheduled flight over the
said a search-and-rescue mission was working at the crash site, without indicating whether the Mi-24 pilots were thought to be dead or
It was not immediately clear whether these were separate or identical incidents.Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and launched a
full-scale invasion of the country in 2022.
