Two UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopters of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine deliver troops to Kozynka, Belgorod region, on March 14th.
Two UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopters of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine deliver troops to Kozynka, Belgorod region, on March 14th.
https://t.me/combatfootageua/14837
Ворог публікує додаткові кадри з висадкою десанту за допомогою гелікоптерів UH-60 Black Hawk в Бєлгородській області.
The enemy has published additional footage of the landing of the landing force using UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in the Belgorod region.
🦉 Два гелікоптера UH-60 «Black Hawk» ГУР МО здійснюють доставку десанту в н.п. Козинка Бєлгородської області 14 березня.
Two UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopters of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine deliver troops to Kozynka, Belgorod region, on 14 March.
Sweet, they've got black hawks now.
*noting that the message of the song doesn't exactly fit in this situation.
It looks like there was prior material talking about transfer of Black Hawks to Ukraine:
https://theaviationist.com/2024/03/18/ukraine-using-two-uh-60s/
A new video shows at least two UH-60s in service with the Directorate of Intelligence, after the first one was unveiled last year.
After the Ukrainian Directorate of Intelligence unveiled a US-made UH-60 Black Hawk in Ukrainian colors in February 2023, a new video now shows at least another UH-60 helicopter that arrived in country. The video was posted by the Directorate on its social media accounts in response to Russian claims that a Ukrainian UH-60 with 20 soldiers on board was shot down.
The appearance of the UH-60 in Ukraine last year came as a surprise as it was not announced in the military aid packages sent to the war-torn country. However, it was later confirmed that the helicopter was bought from the US firm Ace Aeronautics, which specializes in converting older Black Hawk helicopters divested by the U.S. Army for the civilian market, at the end of a crowdfunding campaign that raised six million dollars. It appears that at least another crowdfunding campaign is ongoing in the Czech Republic to buy another UH-60 for Ukraine.
Ah shit, has this been geolocated already? This would go against the Ukrainian claims that the only ones in Belgorod are the Russian Dissident Volunteer militias. Hopefully, this doesn't bite them in the ass.
No comrade, they were not "delivering supplies", they were simply on a training exercise when some Ukrainian citizens radioed for evacuation to protect them from the rapidly deteriorating civil situation in Russia. Upon landing, the helicopters were swarmed by Russian anarchists who stole all of their rescue supplies, consisting of 10k rounds of 7.62 ammunition, 100 mortar rounds, 300 FPV UAVs, and 8 Javelin launchers. To protect from wild bears. Without their supplies to protect them from animals, they had to return to Ukraine and re-equip.
Lol I know you're joking, but it would honestly be cool as fuck if Ukraine was willing to arm BOAK/the Russian Anarchists, probably won't though, all I've seen on the anarchist telegrams are self made bombs.
I have to admit that I've I've got some questions about this footage.
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Russia and Ukraine both have shit-tons of air defense along the border. How is Ukraine having a pretty-visible transport helicopter cruise on into Russia? And not only was it able to do so, but Ukraine had to be pretty confident that there was a hole in Russian air defenses large enough to do so.
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Belgorod is the one place in Russia that Ukraine has definitely been hitting with PGMs. If there's one place I'd think that there'd be air defenses in Russia, it'd be there.
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On top of that, this was in daytime. If Ukraine is gonna do covert behind-the-lines operations, wouldn't it be at night?
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If Ukraine can just fly helicopters into Russia, why? I mean, they're faster, but if one can smuggle soldiers in via the air, it's gotta be easier and quieter to do so on the ground. Kozynka is virtually on top of the front line.
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It's not clear to me what the source of this video is. I'm assuming that if this is real and in Russia, it has to be Ukrainian, on the assumption that if Russia can have a UAV filming this, they would have attacked the helicopter?
EDIT: Note that about this time, Russian separatist fighters did enter Kozynka, so at least the part about getting forces into the area does check out. This was released by Ukraine March 18, four days after the date listed above as being on the helicopter insertion:
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/liberation-forces-raised-flags-in-another-village-in-belgorod-region/
That being said, Ukraine only cited the separatists as a source, so the citation chain is a bit murky there too -- and in fact explicitly pointed out that there wasn't enough context for it to be clear where the photos were from -- but at least they considered the material solid enough to put it up as news.
Russia's air defense is pretty much stretched thin right now. Ukrainian drones can strike deep into russia without many problems. This can be seen by the amount of oil refinerys they destroyed.
Back to the helecopters, they seem to be flying low, which introduces ground clutter and the curvature of the earth. Radar isn't perfect, this is just one of the ways you can defeat it.
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