It really went over the slide in the last few days, with the separatists seizing more government buildings and attacking police. Ukraine is in a no win situation, heads, they resist, and Russia uses that as an excuse to attack or tails, they do nothing and they go by way of chaos. Obviously, normal citizens have the capacity to shoot down helicopters…
Via Fox News:
LOVYANSK, Ukraine – Two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down amid clashes with “highly skilled foreign military men” in the key eastern city of Slavyansk, where a fierce effort by Kiev to regain control from pro-Russian separatists brought the nations closer to the brink.
The fresh violence erupted in Slovyansk, which has become the focus of an armed pro-Russian insurgency. But the Ukrainian offensive “effectively destroyed the last hope for the implementation of the Geneva agreements,” which international observers had hoped might defuse the crisis, warned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman.
A Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman told Fox News that two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down and two of their crewmembers were killed. Several Ukrainian soldiers were injured in the fighting around the southeastern city of Slovyansk.
Residents of the city of 130,000 in the divided province of Donetsk were warned to stay indoors as a Ukrainian “anti-terrorist operation” was mounted. Two Mi24 helicopters were taken down with mobile surface-to-air missiles, killing two military officers and injuring others, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry website. Another army helicopter, an Mi8, was damaged but no one was hurt, it said.