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A Russian helicopter with 22 people on board, including three crew members, has gone missing in the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of the country, state media reported on Saturday. The Mi-8T helicopter, operated by Vityaz-Aero airline, had taken off from a site near the Vachkazhets volcano, heading to the village of Nikolaevka, located 25 kilometers away.

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Russia is terminating the validity of the certificates issued to three aircraft repair enterprises - two in Bulgaria and one in the Czech Republic, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova announced at a briefing, quoted by TASS and BGNES.

It is about the Bulgarian "Terem - Letets" and "Avionams", as well as the Czech "Lom Praha".

The corridor from Mariupol to Zaporozhye is being reopened, which should be monitored by the representatives of the International Red Cross and the UNHCR.
Russian Ministry of Defense claims that two Mi-8 helicopters were shot down in an attempt to evacuate the officers of the Azov unit from Mariupol.

Kazakhstan has confirmed that 13 soldiers have died aboard a helicopter crash in the south, writes RIA Novosti.

The Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Kuzlodrin district during a flight of four combat vehicles from the city of Aktau in the west of Kazakhstan to the town of Shumkent in the west.

Krasnoyarsk. A Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region, killing 18 people on board, a source told Sputnik on Saturday.
"There were 18 people aboard the aircraft, including three crew members. All of them died," the source in the regional emergency services said.

An Mi-8 helicopter has crashed in Siberia, killing 18 people, including three crew members, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said Saturday.

Russia's Defense Ministry says that a Russian military helicopter has crashed in Syria, killing both pilots aboard.

In a statement on January 3, the ministry said the Mil Mi-24 military helicopter crashed due to a "technical malfunction" on December 31 while it was flying to the military air base in Hama, Syria.

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Moscow and Belgrade are preparing to sign an agreement on maintenance of helicopters from the other countries at facilities located in Serbia, Serbia's Acting Assistant Minister for Material Resources Nenad Miloradovic told Sputnik on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Russian and Serbian crews have practiced cooperation in search and rescue operations at the joint BARS-2016 drills, the Russian Defense Ministry's department of information and mass communications said on Thursday.