U.N. Copter Raid Kills Five Bystanders
In 2012, four Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter gunships joined the 22,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A year later the Mi-24s, plus reinforcement gunships from South Africa, were instrumental in the MONUSCO peacekeeping force’s defeat of the M23 rebel group in mineral-rich, but unstable, eastern Congo.... Read more