Under Mosul crashed the Iraqi Mi-35 Air Force

In Iraq, the Iraqi Air Force helicopter crashed. As Interfax reports , referring to the messages of the Western media, the helicopter crashed south of Mosul.

As a result of the accident, four military were killed. According to the Iraqi military command, the cause of the crash of the helicopter was a technical malfunction.

Over the past week, 13 thousand people fled from Mosul. "The flow of people who leave the city daily increased by 50 percent, from 1600 to 2,300 per day. In general, 130 thousand people fled to today from Mosul and its environs," said the UN press secretary Staphan Dyuzharrik.

According to him, refugee flows grew after December 29 as a result of activating the second phase of the anti -terrorist operation.

The ground operation against the Islamic State in the north of Iraq has been continuing since mid -October 2016. On November 1, government forces, along with Shiites , entered the eastern regions of Mosul - the largest city controlled by jihadists. Peshmerga, the army of Iraqi Kurdistan, also participates in the operation. The coalition led by the United States supports allies with air strikes.

IG militants, resisting the enemy’s offensive, capture thousands of civilians and use them as a live shield for bombing.