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Light Combat Helicopter: The helicopters will be inducted into the IAF inventory at a ceremony in Jodhpur in presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari.

A month chairman joint chiefs of staff milley said has donbas fallen in eastern ukraine, he so no it hadnt fallen yet. the lines have not changed in a month. there have been strikes in crimea deep behind enemy lines. numerous russian fighter jets and attack aircraft destroyed. this is very good news to ukranian forces. remember back towering the american revolution george washington received pressure from john adams to fight the british more. washington knew as long as his army stands it could n...

The plane was downed with the Igla MANPADS.

The $2.15 billion was signed during the ILA Berlin Airshow by Carlo Mancus

Missions, et cetera. >> have you had encounters in recent days with russian military jets, encounters in the air? >> we have several a day, intercepting them, trying to engage them. unfortunately its almost unreal to engage them effectively at the moment because -- still because of technology. so we are just trying to push them from our areas, from our front line, their bombers from their attack aircraft and helicopters.

Get across that terrain, that is a formidable problem for any army and it will be a problem for ukraine. so the fact that the russians havent done a systematic air campaign doesnt mean we cant and shouldnt do everything we can to push in the heavy equipment including some fighter aircraft and attack aircraft that ukraine needs to deal with donbas. >> well we know that the first shipment from the $800 million is expected to be there tomorrow morning. fighter jets not included. but some of what th...

At least some of their forces surrounding ukraine are returning to their bases, which is leading to questions in the diplomatic community about whether russia is trying to deescalate the situation. so what does this mean? what message are the russians sending? how real is this? we have reporters on the ground and some of the best minds studying the region here to decipher it because it happens at the same time major military exercises continue and there is new evidence of equipment buildup. righ...

Near the border with ukraine according to american in intelligence is made up of 100 tactical battalion groups. there are also, if you look at that border with belarus, 30,000 troops on their way according to american intelligence as well as attack aircraft and antiaircraft missiles. in the black sea to the south the six warships heading there for military exercises as well. if you have a look at the map of ukraine, that is a pretty well-surrounded country. now just a word on those battalion tac...

When you look at what theyre bringing to the table, that doesnt give you the full picture. you mentioned these anti-aircraft systems and weve seen fighter jets, and grounded attack aircraft, kind of like the russian equivalent of the a10 warthog. this has been going on for several weeks. they started piling this stuff in at the end of last month, declaring that theyre preparing for an exercise. today is the last day of the phase i, they later started calling it, and this goes into active exercis...

Pregnant, right? >> yeah. >> this could be an incursion that really causes some damage to ukraine. >> so these satellite images the last few days showing the 60 russian helicopters are transport helicopters. >> right. >> and attack aircraft. that base hadnt been used, right? it had been vacant for almost the last two decades. we see this image from last november. there were no helicopters. this is coinciding with an exertion in the black sea involving 30 ships. what does that tell you? >> yeah. ...