In Ukraine, volunteers almost convinced Russian pilots to deserted with fighters - the media

As it was possible to find out journalists, in the summer of 2022 a group of Ukrainian volunteers who were in close contact with special services of their country was close to convincing three Russian pilots who bombed Ukraine deserted on their combat aircraft in exchange for $ 1 million each. About it reports Yahoo News. The publication spoke with one of the volunteers who introduced himself to Bogdan, and studied the correspondence that led with Russian pilots.

According to the volunteer, he initiated this complex scheme for the capture of Russian military aircraft. "We gave these Russian pilots a chance to make the right choice and stop bombing civilians. Even if they were intercepted by the FSB at some stage, we would be able to eliminate three war criminals without getting up from the table," Bogdan told reporters.

According to him, he and associates found pilots in fused databases about pilots who fought in Syria, and through paid services for finding people. After that, they contacted the military and offered them to arrive at the assigned point in the airspace of Ukraine, where they would be met by Ukrainian Air Force and accompanied to the air base. In addition to a million dollars, Russian pilots offered amnesty, receiving new passports and assistance with moving to Europe for them and their families.

Journalists have studied hundreds of encrypted spying talks and reports between Bogdan's team and three pilots. It is reported that the negotiation information was accessible to the Federal Security Service of Russia and pilots were compromised, but none of them had been deserted.

Media representatives claim that they were able to make an independent confirmation of pilots, and also emphasize that from the moment the information was disclosed, none of these officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation no longer flew for combat missions. The first pilot-Igor Tveititin 48-year-old senior pilot Tveititin is married, with three children. He is taught to manage the strategic bomber Tupolev Tu-160, a supersonic plane capable of launching nuclear missiles.

For the first time Bogdan came into contact with the end of March 2022, when the pilot was on the Aengels Bombard, which in December twice hit Ukrainian drones. Tveititin was known to fired at the rebels in Syria in 2015, and in 2022 he managed the TU-22M bomber, who struck Ukraine. "I do not want to die," Tveitin Bogdan wrote on April 29. "I am a realist, no one knows how everything will happen. I agree to your conditions, but let there be two translations of $ 7,000. It will make me calmer.

" On May 1, Bogdan asked him to confirm his identity and location, making a "five -second video of a plane with a piece of paper with a number 377 in the background or written on his hand. " Tveititin agreed. To translate the first advance, Bogdan used a transfer in cryptocurrency to the account of the Russian Savings Bank. While discussing Tvetitin and his family export, he still demanded an advance, but already $ 50,000.

He was promised to transfer $ 150,000 in the name of his couple when the pilot's family would move to Belarus, and then move to one of the Baltic countries. Negotiations with Tveititin intensified after Bogdan suggested that he land in Kharkiv at a time when fierce battles were over the city. Tveititin abandoned this "dangerous" trick.

By the end of May, when Mariupol's defenders surrendered their positions and the city was occupied by the Russian Federation, Tveititin reported that the situation of flight routes had changed. It was known that he was one of the pilots who actively bombed Mariupol. As a result, the negotiations came to naught when Trsititin began to hint - the pilots of the Ukrainian Air Force will not cope with the control of his aircraft. And then it stopped communicating.

Ukrainian volunteers have accepted these hints for the fact that Tveititin communicates with them under the close supervision of the FSB. The second pilot - Andriy Maslov in contact with Masol Bogdan came on May 4, 2022. It is known that Maslov as a pilot of a tactical bomber Su-24, as well as his navigator Igor Kupchinsky won bronze medals during competitions in military aviation in Russia in temporarily occupied Crimea.

Maslov suspected that Bogdan could be a FSB spy under cover and refused to accept bank transfer, so he only demanded cash. Bogdan ordered the courier delivery of $ 4,000 in cash to the oil station. Maslov agreed to meet and said he would be in a blue military jacket and "blue summer pants". He also shared that he would be deserted with the Su-24 plane and his 28-year-old mistress for whom he demanded a foreign passport. The girl's personality was installed.

It turned out that she was traveling abroad in 2021, so Bogdan realized that the story with a foreign passport was strange. When asked about this, Maslov began to give vague answers about the "destroyed passport". The power structures found more data about the mistress of the pilot and learned that all her girlfriends were prostitutes, which often called the FSB for "special prosectors". After learning about your lover, Maslov also stopped contact.

The third pilot-Roman Nosenko, the most difficult negotiations were with Bohdan with novel Nosenko, a 36-year-old pilot of fighters-bombers Su-34 and Su-24. He demanded guarantees, but provided the Ukrainians about the planes and the command staff of its unit, and added evidence of their aircraft in exchange for $ 2,000. He said a lot that he has no special patriotism about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "I don't need this war too!" He wrote.

His plan of escape was similar to Tvetitin's plan: when he was laid, he descended at extremely small height, switched to a protected communication channel with Ukrainian interlocutors and landed safely at a given airfield. He planned to drink his navigator. Here only to organize the escape of Nosenko's wife was problematic because she was a military psychologist, and they served, according to him, in one military unit in the Rostov region.

The woman arrived in Minsk, where she received an advance of $ 150,000, but was compromised because Ukrainian intelligence services exposed her in negotiations with the FSB. Accordingly, communication with Nosenko also stopped. Journalists claim that it is unknown now what happened to Tveititin, Maslov and Nosenko. Bogdan stated that Tveitin did not definitely make combat departments to Ukraine, but he is not sure about Maslov and Nosenko.