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The nine people on board the aircraft died, while the other casualties were locals "bringing their children to the kindergarten", according to Tymoshenko. The helicopter was an Airbus H225 operated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. [330] It was confirmed by a CNN news crew onsite after remnants of flight manuals among the debris were found ...
In the air, Russia has not fared much better, losing significant numbers of its most sophisticated and notionally most capable fixed and rotary-wing platforms. According to Oryx, at least 12 ...
[23] [24] [25] Because it reports only visually confirmed losses, Oryx's tallies of equipment losses have formed absolute minimum baselines for loss estimates. [ 26 ] [ 23 ] The Free Buryatia Foundation , which was founded in opposition to the invasion, has used open-source intelligence to try to track the number of Buryats killed in action in ...
As of 14 December 2024, 28 losses of 9K33s by Russia and 21 by Ukraine are documented with photos or video by the OSINT website Oryx. [29] [30] The War Zone notes that the number of losses could be higher since Oryx only tabulates visually confirmed losses. [28]
Oryx was started in 2013, and initially focused on Syria [6] and later on the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. [10]The blog gained international prominence through its work during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, counting and keeping track of material losses based on visual evidence and open-source intelligence from social media.
Russia denied the loss of any aircraft, though this was rebutted by satellite imagery. [68] On 9 October 2022, a Russian Su-24 crashed during landing in the Rostov region in Russia due to technical malfunction. [69] As of 30 March 2023, the Oryx open-source intelligence website has visually confirmed ten Russian Su-24 losses. [70]
TB2 losses amounted to seven units confirmed visually. [48] On 7 May, a TB2 drone attacked and destroyed a Russian Mil Mi-8 transport helicopter as it was unloading passengers on Snake Island. [ 49 ]
At least 92 BTR-D have been visually confirmed lost so far in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [10] Ukraine – 30 in the Ukrainian Airborne Forces as of 2024, [9] with 40 in service in 1995, 42 in 2000 and 44 in 2005. At least 3 BTR-D have been visually confirmed lost so far in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [11] Uzbekistan – 50 ...