Ukrainian drones struck Russian military aircraft near Anapa on September 9, 2026, destroying a helicopter and damaging a fixed-wing jet, according to both Russian and Ukrainian accounts of the same overnight operation that also hit Russia’s naval base at Novorossiysk. Russian sources reporting on the strikes said a single drone destroyed a Mi-8AMTSh helicopter, tail […]

A Russian Aerospace Forces Mi-8 helicopter crashed onto a highway on Sakhalin Island on September 2, coming to rest on its side in a roadside ditch after what the pro-Russian military Telegram channel Fighterbomber described as a complete loss of power from fuel exhaustion in both engines. Video and photographs of the incident show the […]