{"id":130808,"date":"2025-05-25T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130808\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:07:08","slug":"putins-helicopter-allegedly-caught-in-ukrainian-drone-attack-during-kursk-visit-russian-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130808\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s helicopter allegedly caught in Ukrainian drone attack during Kursk visit \u2013 Russian commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin. Stock photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin was reportedly at the centre of efforts to repel a large-scale drone attack by Ukrainian forces during his visit to Russia\u2019s Kursk Oblast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Yuri Dashkin, Commander of the Air Defence division in Kursk Oblast, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rbc_news\/119118\" target=\"_blank\">RBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> According to Dashkin, during Putin\u2019s visit on 20 May, &#8220;the Ukrainian military launched an unprecedented attack&#8221;, and air defences allegedly destroyed 46 drones.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote: <\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;We simultaneously fought an anti-aircraft battle and provided security in the air for the flight of the president\u2019s helicopter. [N.B.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/articles\/2024\/03\/20\/7447383\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ukrainska Pravda does not recognise Putin as president<\/a> \u2013 ed.]<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was actually at the epicentre of repelling a large-scale drone attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin. Stock photo: Getty Images The helicopter of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin was reportedly at the centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2595,57725,2046,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-130808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-drones","9":"tag-kursk-oblast","10":"tag-putin","11":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114568865025332797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130808","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=130808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}