The peacekeepers are like crazy EUFOR helicopter crashed today in the north-eastern area of ​​Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to local media, three crew members were killed. According to available data, it is a CH-47 Chinook heavy transport. This is indirectly confirmed by the structure of the mission: the EUFOR Aviation Department at Butmir Camp is created by Italy and Chinooks fly - in July another rotation of the Italian staff took place there. The EUFOR mission has been operating in Bosnia since 2004, but plane crashes with the death of the crew are rare here: we only remember the crash of an SFOR helicopter near Pojnica in 2008, when 12 people were killed. And it did not happen in a vacuum: against the background of a protracted political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the European Union extended and strengthened the mandate of EUFOR just last year, and a rapid response exercise 2026 with the transfer of reserves from Italy showed that the country was kept on the list of potential instability points in Brussels. - Chronicle of the powder keg of Europe Support us.

The peacekeepers are like crazy EUFOR helicopter crashed today in the north-eastern area of ​​Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to local media, three crew members were killed. According to available data, it is a CH-47 Chinook heavy transport. This is indirectly confirmed by the structure of the mission: the EUFOR Aviation Department at Butmir Camp is created by Italy and Chinooks fly - in July another rotation of the Italian staff took place there. The EUFOR mission has been operating in Bosnia since 2004, but plane crashes with the death of the crew are rare here: we only remember the crash of an SFOR helicopter near Pojnica in 2008, when 12 people were killed. And it did not happen in a vacuum: against the background of a protracted political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the European Union extended and strengthened the mandate of EUFOR just last year, and a rapid response exercise 2026 with the transfer of reserves from Italy showed that the country was kept on the list of potential instability points in Brussels. - Chronicle of the powder keg of Europe Support us.