Russian airmen have been killed, and a third injured after a Mi-24 military helicopter was shot down by Azerbaijani forces earlier today (Monday).The incident happened "in the airspace near the Armenian settlement of Yeraskh, near the border of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic," according to a statement from the Russian defence ministry.Reports say the helicopter was escorting a convoy from Russia’s 102nd military base, just outside Armenia’s second-largest city Gyumri, when it was shot down by a MANPADS anti-aircraft missile system operated by Azerbaijani troops.Video footage from the scene shows the wreckage ablaze, and barely recognisable as a helicopter.According to the Moscow Times, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has already released.
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