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Are you saying you would say "an helicopter"? That makes sense to me if you pronounce helicopter with a European accent, which would sound more like "an 'elicopter". Depending on their accent, English speakers will pronounce some Hs differently. As an American, I would pronounce some words with a hard H, like helicopter or ham or hard, while others are soft, like honor or hour. But other accents may pronounce those words slightly differently.
Ultimately, the use of a or an comes down to pronunciation.
That's all I'm getting at.
If you're saying "Ookraynian" then An would be appropriate, but "An Yookraynian" sounds as wrong as "An Yoonit".
The word "ad" is totally irrelevant. No American English speaker has ever chosen between "a" and "an" by looking at the noun when there is a preceding adjective. Nobody would ever say "an blue umbrella".