Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communications and Info Safety has denied claims that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s helicopter got here below assault from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

Supply: Centre for Strategic Communication and Info Safety on Fb

Particulars: The Centre reported that Putin visited Kursk Oblast on 20 Might on what was apparently his first journey there for the reason that Russian Defence Ministry claimed the area had been fully cleared of Ukrainian forces.

Yuri Dashkin, commander of a Russian air defence division, asserted that Putin's helicopter broke by means of a swarm of Ukrainian drones attacking the area.

Quote: "The professional-Kremlin media, which coated Putin's journey, reported that he travelled throughout the area solely by automobile. Footage of the motorcade was proven on all authorities tv channels.

Moreover, neither the Russian Ministry of Defence nor the media and Telegram channels in Kursk reported a UAV assault on the dimensions described by Dashkin throughout this time interval."

Background: On 25 Might, Dashkin was quoted as saying that Putin’s helicopter was on the centre of efforts to repel a large-scale Ukrainian drone assault throughout a latest go to by the Kremlin chief to Kursk Oblast.

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