War Archive

Operation "Synytsia" - Animated Analysis (2024x3)

Air date: Mar 16, 2024

It’s the afternoon of August 9th, 2023. Russian Mi-8, with a crew of three, pilot Maxim Kuzminov, flight engineer Nikita Kiryanov, and navigator Khushbakht Tursunov take off from the "Kursk" airfield. At 4:30 pm, their cargo mission begins with the aim to quickly deliver a few fighter jet parts from one Russian Air Force base to another. However, two of the crew members still are unaware that their routine flight is part of a much bigger Ukrainian operation that very few countries ever attempted to execute on their adversary.