New Video After the Battle of Hostomel Shows Russia Blew Up Their Own Mi-8
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Russia detonating a Mi-8 helicopter to deny it to Ukraine after the Battle of Hostomel.
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Funny how Russians blowing up their own helicopter is one of the most competent things they’ve done in this war
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And by god it is funny.... can't stop laughing! Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
BUTT there's SO MANY Mi-8s KILL'EM ALL?
@@dallesamllhals9161 🥓 There's a lot of orcs, too 🥓
The Battle of Hostomel will go down as one of the very most important of this war.
1000% if they had that air bridge things would have gone a lot different. They really went all in on it.
That's why the whole thing ground to a halt, the armored column knew it couldn't go forward since there would be no fuel for them once they got there.
Indeed, it is where the Russians lost the battle of Kyiv.
@@Anonnymouse53 No, they had 20,000 troops and would’ve not been able to bring in many more due men shortages early on and maintaining the southern and eastern fronts. They were never going to take Kiev.
@Johnny H Johns If you could read I very clearly said the Russian could NEVER take Kiev. Wasn’t ever gonna happen, Hostomel as much of the Kiev front was insignificant in the war.
Germans were just outside Moscow but fate had other plans. No point in wondering what if, just deal with what is.
Back in the days when Russia thought they were safe up there haha. Things change dramatically since then.
one thing you can be sure of... russians don't think - they do what comes from above, soviet army thinking is strictly forbidden - which proves again and again
Now the tides have turned, now ukraine thinks there safe up there
Which they are 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸💪
@@DR-pj7sr Nope. They're safe in their own territories and a few km into Russian held territory max. Russia, fortunately, doesn't have the absurd amount of MANPADS we've furnished Ukraine with so hitting them on the front lines is _relatively_ safe. They do, however, have a shit load of static air defence systems because the Soviet doctrine was to just accept that NATO would have raw air superiority but the USSR would be fucked if they allowed NATO air dominance. AA systems are cheaper to produce, maintain and train for than a swath of different specialized planes.
“ in 3 days we will have Kiev “ 😂😂😂 RuZZianZ …
Must have been the vodka talking and doing the planning.
Jajaj
How much we have learned since last year. Thank you Suchomimus for being one of the people who has taught us all so much and brought the facts into the light for us. You have done a fantastic job and I'm grateful for you.
Take care!
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What makes me sad about the airport is also the lost of the only one existing biggest airplane - the Antonov 225.
And even worse it appears that Antonov Airlines' director let it happen. As the war approached, many of the staff of the company came up with a plan to fly it and several other aircraft to safety in Germany, and everything was in place, but they were overruled by the director and a couple of other senior executives, who instead insisted that all staff meet on Feb 24th. They also obstructed the Ukrainian military from setting up defences at the airport.
Clearly they were in communication with the Russian government and had advance notice of exactly what was going to happen and when. They have now been arrested.
Serhii Bychkov, the CEO of Antonov then is now remanded to prison, pending trial on treason charges.
Accusations include 'sanctions-busting' to supply components and spares to Russia pre-2022 and collusion with the invasion plan. Reportedly he not only refused suggestions and firm proposals to relocate the Mriya etc in the weeks beforehand (including to absolute safety outside Ukraine), he told all Antonov employees in the area to be at the company's Hostomel HQ on that airfield on the 24th.
@Не Паръся Ruzzia is showing what the USSR would have looked like without the Ukrainian SSR being part of it... collapsing after 35 years, not 70.
Better they give up on Russkiy Myr and go home now, rather than let us find out how long it'll take for a new, not-so-Grand Duchy of Moscow to rot from within.
@@jhonbus right. He was advised to remove all aircraft 2 weeks prior to the invasion, but he didn't . Just 2 days ago he got arrested for this, I heard. Unfortunately I didn't hear the specific charges against him.
@Не Паръся "you can sit in the SBU (Ukraine Security Services) for a simple like...."
Regardless of truthfulness, this statement makes no grammatical sense. Say what you mean in Russian.
They got wind of operator Starsky coming and they didn't want any of that.
Yep 👍. Heroyam Slava 🤙♥️💙💛🙏
Operator Starsky once got bitten by a poisonous snake. 3 days later the snake died in great agony.
pity they didn't think to blow it while they were still in Russia
In my opinion this battle single handedly saved Kyiv.
Another unsung action that saved Kiev was that the residents of a Kiev suburb anticipated Russia might try to use their local airport to land forces and they rushed to park buses and heavy equipment all across the runways. Russia then did try to land but had to abort when they saw all land strips all blocked.
@@The_ZeroLine orcs were talking about their houstumel airport invasion plans on unsecured lines, that's why UA knew it beforehand
@ConfedOfDunces Yeah, remember seeing video from inside a Russian helo coming in over the runways over Hostomel, and there were buses parked across the runway.
VDV's inability to clear them (the Ukrainians probably had them presighted for MG and mortar fire) meant all those Il-76s couldn't land at Hostomel. Those things were probably carrying armoured vehicles and more paratroopers. The Il-76 is pretty damned tough, so they'd likely have made it to Hostomel and successfully landed, assuming Ukrainian forces had expended most of their Stingers on Russian transport and attack helicopters.
Russians should have air dropped their troops
no one asked you
From 3 days to conquer Ukraine to planting vehicles on buildings in Moscow. Orcs have fallen low.
Oh, we have not even begun to see how low they will stoop...
0:40 I believe the story behind this vehicle is: the wounded commander of the paratroops at Hostomel and a wounded lieutenant were loaded into one of the few working vehicles. A wounded paratrooper was told to guard them. The driver drove like a crazy man, dodging Ukrainian fire and drove up onto the concrete. The driver ran away. The paratrooper was further injured and wandered around for an hour, trying to find help. He could not find anyone. He went back to the wounded officers and they both had bled out and died. He found a place to shelter for the night and eventually surrendered to the AFU. There is a lot more to the story. He was one of the few survivors of the first wave of paratroopers to the airport.
туда ему и дорогоа
Calling 🧢 on this
Any source?
@@rodrigobara7757 ruclips.net/video/TStvtOgp4ow/видео.html The interview with the captured VDV
Here is the interview with that captured paratrooper ruclips.net/video/TStvtOgp4ow/видео.html
Wow they actuality followed rules about leaving equipment.
It's amazing to think that everything would have been different if Russia had been capable of capturing that airport. The entire planet changed for the rest of the century right there. And really, if Zelenskyy hadn't stayed in Kyiv and signaled that the elected leadership was going to fight, would the AFU have been willing to fight? We'll never know. So close that Putin could taste it, but no.
I wouldn’t go that far. It’s not as if Russia is even close to being powerful enough to defeat Ukraine outright in a conventional war. Russia and Ukraine are peer military powers.
Even if Russia did take hostomel airport, it wouldn’t have changed much. Still would have been a long war of attrition
I agree with the other reply, but I’d also like to add from experience, that professional militaries will strategize these large operations until there are no more “if’s, and’s, or but’s.” We use to have contingencies for contingencies, and rehearse until no one ever had to pause, and everyone’s movements and communication was fluid. Point is, if the success of Russia’s plan depended on everything going right, it wasn’t really a plan.
And the next door National Guard had just left on a deployment, so the main defenders were like 200 or less training conscripts, their training officers, base staff including the fire brigade, and other mainly office related personnel with the leftover less desirable weapons that weren't taken on that deployment! Luckily they had like 2 artillery pieces in storage nearby which helped destroy the runway while other Ukrainian Army/Territorial Defense brigades rapidly came to reinforce the area... "Operator Starsky" has a good video on it, as it was his base and he was there in the battle because he was a press officer doing desk work😳 He said the military fire brigade was one of the units really getting into the fight lol... Very interesting and critical story, it's nearly 2hrs long, but gives the battle/following few days in great detail 👍
@@ironknee6879 Lots of accounts of commanders having no idea they were going to assault Ukraine even up to the day before.
The US president came very close to collapsing the Ukrainian resistance, in offering Zelenskyy a safe exit. I'm glad he didn't accept the offer.
I'll quote Robert Browning: "For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave." Amen. And a tip of the hat to Zelenskyy, who stepped into his role better than anyone expected. A true hero, in my opinion.
they managed to blow up vehicles instead of gifting them to ukraine? wow, you can tell that those were russia's best troops! xD
Good tactical call, but it was certainly not a demolition expert who did that. Less than a fifth of that explosive would have sufficed to make sure not a single nut or bolt would have been reusable. Turning it into helicopter confetti, while impressive looking for sure, was a waste of explosives.
Every war starts with the attackers saying "it will all be over by Xmas"
Now that’s how you “ de-mil” a piece of equipment!
Must be embarrassing serving Putin 🤦♂️
depends low grunt yes , raking in the money higher up no
Must make one have trouble sleeping due to being a war criminal.
looks like someone left their homework onboard.
Far more will come to light once the dust settles and the fog of war lifts.
Thanks for uploading a war time event we often hear of but few actually see occur.
I wonder what all the papers were? Prepared responses to all the fan mail they expected to get from grateful liberated Ukrainians? "Dear loyal Ukrainian, thank you for your kind letter. As you know not all of your countrymen agree with you and need to be "filtered." You can help your new Russian masters by sending us the names and addresses of neighbors who should be interrogated."
Very funny, and not entirely impossible ... 😀But most likely it was something like an aviation manual (straight from the 1970s - no digital ressources available in this russian helicopter of course), or maybe some classified operational orders for the invasion ...
Looted toilet paper, which is why the helicopter was too heavy to fly.
@@Framo60 I'm pretty sure every nation still uses paper manuals. Because electronics fail, a book does not.
@@CrazyDutchguys Possibly - but in an helicopter you usually have not much time to thumb through a voluminous flight manual when electronics fail ...
@@CrazyDutchguys The (failed) Nimrod AWC aircraft was so full of heavy equipment that the manuals had to be printed on special light weight "plastic" paper and the text was in a very small font. Magnifying glasses were provided, they used fresnel lenses mounted in a frame so that the manual could be passed underneath at the correct focal length. When the project was cancelled, I liberated a few and still use one to magnify fine detailed maps.
I knew some part of the special military invasion must have gone as planned. Congrats ruzzia and sorry if I ever doubted!
All the interessting background infos you're gathering gives us the possibility to understand better whats fact.
Thank you! 🙏
Filming in portrait = not war crime, but close
That's how you can tell the initial wave of troops were elite (may they rest in peace;), they properly dealt with immobile assets.
Not like the mobik kids in tennis shoes sprinting away from their tanks at the first puff of smoke.
I have so much respect to the Ukrainian military & people for fighting so determined against the evils of Russian aggression. Shalom
ukraine was so nice to shell civilians for 8 years yea...i agree those evil ruskis
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@@Lipi19821 Did they invade Russia. Hell no~~~!!! Have Russian soldiers killed 10's of 1,000's of Ukrainian civilians under Putin. Hell Yes~~~!!! Fvck the ruskis. Shalom
Pretty sure this is a troll... Anyone who ends a comment with "shalom" is just trying to be edgy
@@doozledorf7036 Seems you have a problem with someone wishing peace to everyone. If you prefer I could sAs-salamu Alaykum. I'm fairly sure you're an ass. Shalom
Hi Such,
Thank you.
I guess we were witnessing without realising it a monumental mistake which the Russian's have still not fixed for 12 months.
Great posts
According to Operator Starsky, he witnessed with his own eyes where his guys at Hostomel where shooting at a Russian flying tank heli, making it give off a thick black smoke. Certainly several helicopters must have been severely damaged if the attack helicopters where getting smoked.
I just watched Starskys video about the opening battle of Hostomel where 300 VDV with helicopter gunship support had a 2 hour battle against a force of 200 conscripts and pay clerks. At the end, one Ukrainian was injured, whilst the Russians had lost several helicopters, and dozens of KIA. The Ukrainians only withdrew after running out of ammunition after spending it on concentrated small arms fire on the helicopters, which was surprisingly effective as they were flying so low over the defenders. As Starsky said, you can't miss when they are flying so low. It's well worth a watch. ruclips.net/user/liveVPfh8sjBQaw?feature=share
This helicopter is at Hostomel long after the initial battle, which was Feb 24. The one in this video is destroyed in early April, when the orcs left the airfield.
Speaking of Operator Starsky, if you haven't seen his video Building a Kit Aircraft! it is a must watch. Magnificent comic timing.
It's definitely well worth the long listen time, gives great details of the first battle and following days, basically what prevented those IL76s full of armored vehicles and hundreds of troops from landing a stones throw away from the capital while most AFU units were dispersed originally... This battle basically caused that 20 mile convey of embarrassment... It was all supposed to be delivered to Hostomel...
Wow, the Mi-8 is a paper tiger. It got hit, and shards of paper flew everywhere.
Thank you good Sir
lol, it was full of confetti. So whimsical!
Propaganda Leaflets planned for drops over Kiev Region.
Those are the flight and maintenance manuals ,,,,
@@als1023 And guides on how to interrogate disloyal Ukrainians who didn't bring flowers.
The personnel files of the other 1,000 paratroopers drawing pay and allowances that definitely, really existed and arrived but mysteriously disappeared somehow?
You should ask Operator (Captain) Starsky. He was there during the battle.
blowing up is a key feature of russia's military hardware
My professional opinion: it was out fuel. The Russians in another logistical screw up, did not establish a FARP. (Forward arming and refueling point) kinda logistics planning 101
probably expected to establish an r3p at the airport, another example of counting their chickens before they hatched
Thanks Suchomimus.
Most likely was broken down and had to be destroyed because it wasn't able to fly out on it's own
Yup, traitors! Soon detected, immediately destroyed...🤷🤦🤦
Or maybe it was really close to the frontline where the manpads existed making it impossible to fly out safely.
@@davidty2006 helicopters are very strong but most anti air will erase them easily, those things are meant to support troops from behind sort of like tank destroyer back in ww2
its normal practise to destroy equipment you leave behind to deny the enemy use of it at a later date.
airborne was probably being told not to abandon what could get a repair. hence how the pages of the handbook celebrate their freedom.
Glad that was finally explained - but Sucho, do we know who supplied this latest video?
Movies will be made about this legendary battle.
also very interesting to see the Vitebsk system deployed
Shows in the early days they had some troops which had training and professionalism. Blowing up own equipment instead of abandoning it for capture is standard doctrine for most militaries. Hopefully not too many of those left by now.
Beneath the battle of hostomel is the defense of kiev government area and the Selensky government against the infiltration commandos another detail we need to know much more
I am confident that after the war, it will be a class at West Point.
@@john_in_phoenix Hopefully to replace the current West Point class "Indecision, Incremental Response, and Identity."
@@AstroGremlinAmerican Zing! Comedy gold right there. Too true.
thanks
I fear the Russian military has been feeling all alone and unappreciated recently. But I’m sure we can all applaud when they do things like this. Really, they ought to try blowing up a whole lot more of their equipment as they exit Ukraine. They could probably earn further plaudits…
I would be happy if they blew it all up BEFORE they got to Ukraine as well. What say you?
Of course they did...🤦🤦🤦
“We’ve downed one of the choppers! Unfortunately, it’s one of our own!”
It even beats the driving skills of the tank driver at 00:40.
Never seen a worse army than the russian.
You should see some of the African armies then. They still don't know what the shoulder stock on a rifle is for....
Interesting that Orc MI8 had a FLIR pod installed under the tail boom. Glory to the Ukrainian freedom fighters!
Sad, I'm sure the Ukrainians would've liked to take the 'copter for a spin.
Slava Ukraine! 💙💛
It would appear that right after they blew up the chopper they found out where their commander had hidden all his looted Ukrainian banknotes!
as an American, we blow all our shit up too, down bird, done, tanks, brads, done, everything done, we even carry thermite grenades to blow up our own shit
I wonder what happened with the TAC plane in the background? Any info?
the ukrainians would have used the rear wheel inner tube for a wheel barrow tyre im sure.
After the second world war it was difficult to get cheap transport. In Italy they developed the Scooter and employed the tailwheel of aircraft as the front wheel of the Scooter.
What a blast🤣
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The Russians seldom destroy abandoned equipment, so this is very unusual.
I'd like to think Hostomel airport has hidden defences now and a radar site watching and waiting because, its such an obvious target. I'd also make sure everything there is either mined or booby trapped to make it a sure fire killing zone.
1:03 Blow your own hello add confetti for dramatic effect LOL
as dumb as they may be, those could have been secret papers in the helicopter.... (but I think it was just the flight manual shredded to pieces)
The fate of the helicopter symbolises the fate of the Russian Army. Destroyed by their own side.
It might have been in working order, but at that stage in the disaster befalling the VDV troops at Hostomel, trying to fly it out might have been suicidal given the number of SAMs waiting the arrival of the next wave of airborne cannon fodder (that never came). When the VDV left, they left on foot.
technically speaking we didnt have any SAM sights at that time near hostomel. MANPADS and anything that could lock on and shoot these down were near the banks of the Dnipr. This helicopter could have flown away and probably been fine. Who knows why they destroyed it. But it was almost 100% not because of fear of being shot down.
@@jeremycrowley8628 24the Feb 2022: Ukrainian forces have claimed to have shot out of the air at least four Russian KA-52 Alligator attack helicopters during a battle for Gostomel air base. A fifth helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at the field under heavy fire
Something was shooting them down.
@@jeremycrowley8628 Serhiy Falatyuk, successfully shot down a Russian helicopter with an 9K38 Igla,
@@AndyM_323YYY yes... Manpads near the dnipr were shooting down helicopters as they were on approach to gostamel. The route they took was down the dnpir to avoid non-existence ppo.
"Me"8 and "Caw" 50 are certainly unique ways to say the names of those helos.
"me" is right as far as im aware. Thats how its pronounced in russian.
@@CrazyDutchguys But he's not speaking Russian. I've always heard the individual letters spelled out as in M-i. Maybe it's a to-may-to, to-mah-to thing.
This is great keep delivering cases of vodka to the front lines
Was that helicopter full of papers? That was strange looking.
me and the boys on a one way trip to hostomel (gone wrong)
So much paper flying after the explosion! What from?
Good habit. Keep on the good work RuZZia👏👏👏
You do realize this happened as Russia left the Airport following there departure from the Kiev area
smoking accident early in the war
If you going to get a job done correctly, you need to do the job yourself.
You wonder why they din't just burn it ....... same result.
The yanks should have taken a few tips off these guys when they abandoned their vehicles as they retreated from Afghanistan. There wouldn’t now be video of Taliban in Blackhawks.
reason of destruction of Mi-8 might be and failure of compartment. or maybe shot downed(but got shot and landed not crashed) by small firearms like MG or rifles.
Another intriguing nugget of information. If you had been born into a well off Home Counties family, you’d be a senior Intelligence analyst before you reached 30. But hey, it’s the UK, so you had a channel on fossils in your spare time.
That money floating in the air just after the blast?
I see the satire machine is in full flight once again, seizing the opportunities the Russian forces for inspiring their imagination.
Thanks for the laughs, all you commentators.
Russia is not using mi-8. This is how ur father brought u up..
more more more Hostomel please
It's made of paper!
At 0:58, there is a turret shown under the tailboom of the Mil-8. It looks like a Directed Infra-Red Counter-Measures (DIRCM) turret. Any thoughts anyone?
That's exactly what it is i'm pretty sure.
Ukraine's scrap metal must be booming
does some one actually knows what happened at hostomel because alot of people say that almost all of the landing force got killed but i remember watching a video where u can clearly see a convoy of 20 ifvs and trucks in the middle of the airport, and it was so strange for me because the airport was intact even the mirya wasnt destroyed yet, is it possible that a mechanized regiment reached hostomel in afew hours? and there was a interrogation from a captured paratrooper and he never mentioned a counter attack in the night
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hostomel
I think it was just attempting to take off.
Mi-8 is Emm Eye Eight, not me 8.
Wrong, it identified itself as a russian tank.
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putin zan-tsu: how not to start a war.
Pilots logbook went to shit.
The Mi8 was equipped with 3 FLIR turrets. Why????
2nd LSA
interesting
maybe it just ran out of fuel 💀
Em-eye-eight
War !!! Death !!!
..so WE all hate the Mi-8 now?
What were the papers?
That's the flight manual, the potential pilot only got to page 6, before saying "Sod it, lets just blow it up".
Olesksander Makhov was killed defending Ukraine during this time.
@1:02 blast start
We still getting videos of just how bad the Russians got destroyed in Hostomel.
The us could learn a few lessons how much gear has the taliban got
No helicopters, so what is your point? The US always leaves mountains of equipment behind.
1:02 _"Do you think you used enough dynamite there Butch?"_
What a pity Ukraine didn't have more MANPADS with the troops at Hostomel. It would have made it an extremely costly exercise in orcs and equipment for #russiaTerroristState .
I think they destroyed it because every Ukrainian and their Babashuka had a MANPAD in the area. Too dangerous to fly home so the crew likely hitched a ride with retreating ground units.
EM - EYE 8