The Russian Embassy in the Central African Republic (CAR) is checking media reports about a helicopter crash with Russian military specialists. RIA Novosti reports.
Details of the helicopter crash appeared earlier. “We rose into the air and began to whirl sharply. Spun, circled and fell. (…) Nobody was hurt. We fell on soft ground,” said the wounded soldier on the Vesti Nedeli program.
Russia in December 2020, at the request of the CAR authorities, sent 300 military instructors to the country. It was clarified that on the spot they would train the servicemen of the republic’s national army. At the same time, information appeared that Russian mercenaries began to help the CAR army – they were noticed 130 kilometers north-west of the republic’s capital Bangui, along with mercenaries from Rwanda and representatives of the CAR Armed Forces (FACA).