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The 2006 Russian military Mil Mi-8 crash was a helicopter crash near Vladikavkaz. The crash killed 12 Russian military men, mostly high-ranking officers, among them Lieutenant-General Pavel Yaroslavtsev, deputy chief for army logistics, Lieutenant-General Viktor Guliaev, deputy chief of army medical units, and Major-General Vladimir Sorokin.

The Ossetian militant group Kataib al-Khoul claimed responsibility for shooting down the helicopter.[1]

References

  1. ^ "12 Dead In Russian Helicopter Crash". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2022-03-08.

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