It was a significant victory for Ukraine's air defense, as they successfully intercepted two of Russia's state-of-the-art Ka-52 Alligator helicopters. Impressively, one was taken down using a Swedish RBS-70 MANPADS – a notable first in the visually recorded use of this system.
Ukraine's 47th Mechanized Brigade posted on Facebook that soldiers destroyed a Ka-52 at around 7:40 a.m. on Thursday using a portable air-defense missile system near Robotyne, a village in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region.
