This is very disappointing, the expectation from ED is for English users when flying a Russian MI-8 to have the AI helicopter crew, which is supposed to be an assist to the human English speaking pilot... Speak Russian to said pilot. At the very least give us English subtitles to what the crew is telling us but keep the Russian voices as a sensible work around, but having them speak English to us would be better solution.
I fail to see the logic in this decision and I wish Belsimtek would ask this issue to be re-visited by the entities involved. I can see this as being a future issue with the MI-24 with AI pilot or Gunner communicating to the player as well.
Thanks for consideration of my input. I'm sure a well thought out happy medium could be reached, the end user should not have to modify game files on their install to discern what their AI crew is trying to communicate to them in another language, in this case Russian.