All eight people on board a missing helicopter off the coast of Svalbard are Russians, the Russian Emergency Ministry told Reuters on October 26.
Reuters: All eight people on missing helicopter off Svalbard are Russians
A Belarus' military helicopter team take part in a pilot rescue training as part of the Zapad military exercises, near the town of Ruzhany, some 235 km (147 miles) south-west of Minsk, on Sept. 17, 2017. Russia and Belarus began an operation involving thousands of troops, tanks and aircraft on NATO's eastern edge practicing how to hunt down and destroy armed spies, among other maneuvers.
