New Delhi, May 26 -- A Russian military commander has alleged that President Vladimir Putin's helicopter was "at the epicenter" of a Ukrainian drone strike that took place on May 20 in Russia's Kursk Oblast.

"We were simultaneously engaged in an air defense battle and ensuring airspace security for the president's helicopter flight," Yury Dashkin, commander of an air defense division, said, as cited by the Russian news agency RBC on May 25.

"The helicopter was effectively at the epicenter of the response to the massive drone attack."

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