Footage from March 2024 shows two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters belonging to the Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate (GUR) conducting a cross-border air assault infiltration into the Russian region of Belgorod.

The American-made birds are shown flying at extreme low altitudes to avoid radar detection and surface-to-air missile interception. The aircraft briefly land to offload special operations troops and rapidly dip out back to Ukraine.

The nature of the operation isn't known, but was likely related to facilitating the Freedom of Russia Legion incursion that also took place last month.

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