On 6 March 2022, a Russian Air Force Mil Mi-8, operated by the 55th Separate Helicopter Regiment, was shot down by Ukrainian forces using MANPADS, and fell into the Dnieper river near Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast. All three crew members were killed.
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The grave of major Yuri Belitchenko.
The helicopter was transporting military personnel (reportedly 14 people) from Dzhankoi to the Chornobaivka Air Base. Following people were most likely among the passengers who died in the crash: starshiy leytenant Nikita Perfilov (368th ShAP)
starshyna Stanislav Arzumanov (368th ShAP)
starshiy leytenant Mikhail Fatyanov (37th SAP)
kapitan Alexander Alexandrov (37th SAP)
starshiy leytenant Maxim Ushakov (37th SAP)
major Kirill Litvinov (37th SAP)
praporshchyk Dmitry Shalomagin (37th SAP)
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