Syria News 18 November 2019 year. The crash of the Mi-8 helicopter in Syria, the Kurds tried to burn Russian armored cars while patrolling
The latest news of the fighting in Syria on November 18, 2019
Mi-8 helicopter crash in Syria
The crash of a Mi-8 military helicopter owned by the Syrian Air Force killed three Syrian troops. The incident occurred about a day ago, while if information initially appeared that the tragedy had occurred due to the shelling of several shells from an anti-aircraft installation of terrorists, then later it became known that this information was not reliable - the plane crash occurred due to a technical malfunctions of a combat vehicle.
Some photos from crash area https://t.co/ZDCXqjJ71R pic.twitter.com/NDd5CZ4Ggo
- Last Defender (@LastDef) November 18, 2019
According to the data available at the current hour, the helicopter crew was taking off with the aim of bombing terrorists in the province of Idlib, however, due to the failure of the control system, control over the rotorcraft was lost, as a result of which the latter fell on its side and hit at high speed on the ground.
Kurds attacked Russian military with Molotov cocktails
The Kurds tried to burn the armored vehicles of the Russian military using Molotov cocktails. The incident occurred this afternoon during the next patrol of a designated area in northern Syria. As can be seen in the presented videos, the armored vehicles of the Russian and Turkish military were literally bombarded with Molotov cocktails.
According to current data, no one was injured as a result of the Kurdish attack, but the Turkish military was forced to resort to using tear gas.