The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense published a documentary film with testimonies of the defenders of Mariupol about the supply of aid to the besieged city. In the tape, the direct participants in the operation talk about the supply of medicines, food and ammunition.

“Seven helicopter flights that have already become a legend. To the territory of the Azovstal plant, which became the last line of defense of the city. A chronicle of events from the memoirs of direct participants, ”the video description says..

“At that time, the enemy controlled the territory around the city, and the waterways could not be used, since the enemy let down his warships and they controlled the exits from the Mariupol city port. Therefore, the only way left was an air bridge,” Kirill Budanov, head of the Ukrainian military department, comments on the situation in which the then Ukrainian military department found itself..

The flight route was worked out in detail, taking into account all intelligence data and the characteristics of enemy air defense systems..

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The military share that the supply of weapons was especially pleasing at that time, the defenders were in dire need of Stinger MANPADS, NLAW and Javelin complexes, as well as elementary things like water, medicines and supplies.

Such sorties became extremely dangerous after the Russians calculated the route and began to shoot down helicopters..

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