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600 km is about enough to make it to the Kerch Strait from Ukrainian-controlled territory.
If you can stick a MANPADS on one, that'd make it a lot riskier to counter groups of them with gun-bearing helicopters, which Russia appears to have been trying to do in the videos I've seen.