The pilot of the Ukrainian plane, which crashed on the evening of April 5 in the Bryansk region, according to preliminary data, was engaged in aerial reconnaissance of the area. On this subject informed TASS, citing an unnamed National Guard representative.
“Presumably the pilot was directed by means of communication. There was no second plane. According to him, (for completing the task) he was promised 50,000 hryvnias,” he said.
As the agency’s interlocutor said, the pilot, who landed in a field near the village of Butovsk, was first noticed by local residents, they turned to law enforcement . According to a representative of the Russian Guard, the entire security forces of the region, including representatives of the Interior Ministry of the Bryansk region, the Russian Guard, as well as servicemen of the Border Guards, have participated in the arrest of the man.
Baza telegram channel published footage of the man’s interrogation. Answering a question about the purpose of the flight to the Bryansk region, the pilot, who introduced himself as Alexander Morozov, said: “The task was: to fly at low altitude, behind the leader (plane) and, at the command of the leader, take a shot when he says.
According to the man, he did not know that he was flying over the territory of Russia – he was told that he was supposed to fly “to the south”. “On the road <…> in the direction of, say, the Kiev region to the south," the pilot added.According to the detainee, he did not participate in the dropping of ammunition on the territory of the Bryansk region and has not made any flights since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict.The flight, which ended in a crash, was made at a height of 50 meters, the pilot said. According to him, the plane crashed due to the fact that "the propeller broke".The man also said that he was not a military man, but a private pilot, he was promised 50,000 hryvnias for the flight. On whose instructions Morozov acted, it is not specified.At the same time, the Mash telegram channel informed that the plane flew to the Druzhba oil pipeline to drop a bomb, and on March 23 it allegedly took part in an attack on a cellphone tower.
“The detained pilot has already crossed the border into the Russian Federation – together with another Aeroprakt he tried to drop a bomb on a cell tower. Then the planes managed to escape,” writes Mash.
Edition “Agency” in turn drew pay attention to media publications, from which it appears that Alexander Morozov is a civilian pilot who decided to learn to fly at the age of 50. This, in particular, was reported by Current Time*: the channel’s 2018 material stated that in the late 2000s he “passed the training, bought himself a small plane, and then a plane didn’t fit him. was not enough” and he decided to build an airfield in the Kharkiv region.
According to Kharkiv publications, since the outbreak of hostilities in Donbass in 2014, Morozov has airlifted wounded Ukrainian soldiers and taken them to hospitals. As the Agency found out, a voluntary association of pilots “Civil Air Patrol” is now working on the basis of the Morozov airfield, which, judging by s on social networks, is involved in the current military conflict in Ukraine.
On the evening of April 5, the FSB reported that a Ukrainian light aircraft crashed in the Bryansk region. SHOT writing that we are talking about Aeroprakt A-22. According to the Telegram channel, the plane was shot down by small arms, as a result of which it was damaged and made an emergency landing. The FSB claimed that after the accident the pilot tried to escape to Ukrainian territory, but he was stopped by border guards. According to Baza, the Russian guard arrested the man. On him they found an AKS-74U assault rifle and a bulletproof vest, transmits SHOT.
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