{"id":130427,"date":"2025-05-25T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130427\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:40:08","slug":"ukraine-tries-to-kill-putin-by-downing-his-helicopter-in-russia-war-zone-mission-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130427\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine ‘tries to kill Putin’ by downing his helicopter in Russia war zone mission | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine made an audacious bid to blast Vladimir Putin\u2019s presidential helicopter out of the sky over Russia<\/a>\u2019s Kursk region last week, according to reports. Air force Major-General Yuri Dashkin said repeated military drone attacks were launched at the moment when the Russian leader made a rare visit close to the war zone.<\/p>\n

A Putin trip to Kursk region was previously reported as taking place on May 20. Dashkin said: “During the period when the President [Putin] was working in the Kursk region, the enemy launched an unprecedented attack with unmanned aerial vehicles. The air defence group in this area destroyed 46 aircraft-type [Ukrainian military drones].”<\/p>\n

The region borders Ukraine<\/a> and a small area of territory remains occupied by Kyiv troops.<\/p>\n

Major-General Dashkin said: “The intensity of the attack during the flight of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s aircraft over Kursk region increased significantly. We simultaneously conducted an air battle and ensured the safety of the presidential helicopter in the air.<\/p>\n

“The task was accomplished. The attack of the enemy drones was repelled, and all air targets were hit.” A state TV host asked if this meant Putin\u2019s helicopter was actually in the combat zone.<\/p>\n

Dashkin replied: “Yes, that’s right.” His words suggest Ukraine<\/a> had intelligence about Putin\u2019s secret visit to Kursk which was not announced until he had left the region.<\/p>\n

The major-general added: “In fact, in the epicentre of repelling a massive attack by the enemy with unmanned aerial vehicles.”<\/p>\n

Unlike President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>, Putin is suspected to have avoided visits into the war zone for much of the Russia<\/a>–Ukraine<\/a> conflict.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate, independent verification of the claim of Ukrainian drones targeting Putin made by Vesti Nedeli, a propaganda show on Kremlin-funded TV.<\/p>\n

In carefully staged footage shown the day after his reported trip, Putin was seen among handpicked locals.<\/p>\n

He told them: “It’s been a while that I wanted to visit [Kursk region], to talk about your work, to thank you for it, to learn how it’s organised in more detail, and ask questions natural in such circumstances: what needs to be done additionally to help and support you?”<\/p>\n

Putin hit out at Ukrainian soldiers accused of shelling war monuments in Kursk region: “They will even take second place in a competition of idiots – because they are idiots.”<\/p>\n

The Russian leader didn’t meet locals said to be furious about being made homeless in Russia<\/a>‘s Kursk border regions due to Putin\u2019s war.<\/p>\n

His secret visit – which was not disclosed until it had ended – included a tour of Kursk Nuclear Power Plant-2, which is under construction in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine made an audacious bid to blast Vladimir Putin\u2019s presidential helicopter out of the sky over Russia\u2019s Kursk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,7661,333,57559,57561,57562,57560,57558,57557,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-130427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","10":"tag-vladimir-putin","11":"tag-vladimir-putin-assassination-attempt","12":"tag-vladimir-putin-attacked","13":"tag-vladimir-putin-helicopter-attack","14":"tag-vladimir-putin-kursk","15":"tag-vladimir-putin-latest","16":"tag-vladimir-putin-news","17":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114568050947090211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}