{"id":1388179,"date":"2026-04-29T19:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainian-drones-hit-two-russian-helicopters-in-the-voronezh-region\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:02:54","slug":"ukrainian-drones-hit-two-russian-helicopters-in-the-voronezh-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainian-drones-hit-two-russian-helicopters-in-the-voronezh-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones hit two Russian helicopters in the Voronezh region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"854\"><strong>The Ukrainian Armed Forces&#8217; unmanned systems forces hit two Russian Mi-28 and Mi-17 helicopters in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"856\" data-end=\"933\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1bor5HTuSM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was announced by<\/a> the Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert &#8220;Magyar&#8221; Brody. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"856\" data-end=\"933\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1290073862563413%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"1214\"> According to him, the strike was carried out on a field airstrip located more than 150 kilometers from the line of contact. Four Mi-28 and Mi-17 helicopters were at this point, where they were refueling and undergoing technical inspection between flights.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1216\" data-end=\"1376\"> The operation was carried out on April 29 by pilots of combined crews of the 429th separate brigade of unmanned systems &#8220;Achilles&#8221; and the 43rd separate artillery brigade in cooperation with the Central Military District &#8220;A&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1378\" data-end=\"1478\"> The blows were delivered to the rear central part of the engine compartment, bypassing the main propeller blades.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1480\" data-end=\"1590\"> According to preliminary data, at least one specialist who was servicing helicopters was killed during the attack.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1703\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Robert Brovdy noted that the Ukrainian &#8220;Birds&#8221; continue to work on enemy targets even in the deep rear of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1703\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> It should be noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/henshtab-pidtverdyv-udary-po-ppo-naftobazi-ta-punktakh-upravlinnia-bpla-rf\/\">the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out a series of strikes on important military facilities of the Russian occupiers in Crimea, Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions during the day, on April 29.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1703\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/mih-29-zsu-znyshchyv-bazu-rosiian-na-tsukrovomu-zavodi-v-totkino\/\">a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet struck Russian military positions in the village of Tyotkino, Kursk Region of the Russian Federation.<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian Armed Forces&#8217; unmanned systems forces hit two Russian Mi-28 and Mi-17 helicopters in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation. This was announced by the Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert &#8220;Magyar&#8221; Brody. According to him, the strike was carried out on a field airstrip located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":216203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,77303],"class_list":["post-1388179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}