MI-8, Suicide Mission: Inside Azovstal’s First Helicopter Evacuation

Meet Mykola Lyubarets, a fearless Ukrainian helicopter pilot who risked everything to fly under Russian enemy fire, evacuating wounded soldiers from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. Lyubarets defied the odds, navigating through Russian encirclement to complete one of the war’s first evacuations that could have been a ‘one-way ticket’ suicide mission.