The Ukrainian military has announced that a military helicopter crashed during a training mission in Kharkiv, killing its two-man crew.

Ukraine’s Kharkiv Air Force University said the helicopter crashed during a military flight training exercise on Sunday, killing its two-man crew. It added that investigators and Ukrainian Defense Ministry officials were working to determine why the helicopter crashed.

The war between Moscow and Kiev took an escalating course on August 6, after the Ukrainian army announced that it was able to penetrate into Russian territory and advance in the / Kursk / border region for kilometers, in a new shift in the war between the two countries since 2022.