border guards arrested While trying to escape from the pilot of the Ukrainian light plane that crashed in the Bryansk region on Wednesday, April 5, TASS.
“On 04/05/2023, employees of the FSB Border Directorate in the Bryansk region of Russia noted that a Ukrainian light aircraft violated the state border from Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
The plane crashed for an unknown reason near the village of Butovsk in the Bryansk region. According to the press service of the border office of the Russian FSB for the region, a pilot (a Ukrainian citizen) was detained by a border detachment, trying to escape to the territory of Ukraine.
They added that a trial against the pilot is ongoing and that a procedural decision will be made as a result.
According to the head of the Klintsovsky district, Viktor Savchenko, no one was injured. “The plane crashed in a field near the settlement of Butovsk, there is no damage or destruction. Nobody was injured,” the official said.
Version of the National Guard
In contrast, the Russian Guards reportedthat the pilot was first noticed by local residents, who turned to law enforcement.
“It was probably managed through pilot communication. There was no second plane. From your words, [за выполнение задания] A representative from the ministry said he was promised 50,000 hryvnia.
He explained that the pilot was promised a reward for completing aerial reconnaissance missions.
pilot version
However, as the Telegram channel reports Basis, the pilot himself claims that he allegedly followed another plane and that he “didn’t even know it had arrived in Russia” and that the plane’s instruments were “turned off” to him. He couldn’t give the name of the airport he started his flight from, saying that he flew “to the south of Ukraine”.
“After being arrested by the Russian Guard, a man knowledgeablehe was not a military pilot, but a civilian pilot and performed the usual duty for 50 thousand hryvnia – he was required to take pictures only at the behest of the presenter.
According to the preliminary version, in reality the pilot was conducting reconnaissance on the instructions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Security forces near the plane to create the ground is sprinkled with automatic weapons, ammunition and body armor. The publication says that all this was given to him “for protection,” according to the pilot.
What is known about the pilot
Meanwhile RT I learned that the name of the detained pilot was Alexander Morozov. He is a private pilot, learned to fly at the age of 50.
“Until 2014, I bought myself an airplane and a plot of land and built an airport on it. In 2014, “the worldview has changed” and, together with co-pilot Yuriy, he began to assist the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Border Guard Service.
Their tasks were different: they drove the wounded Ukrainian army from the front, and also patrolled the forests and roads, ”says the broadcast’s Telegram channel.
According to their data, in 2016 Morozov and his co-pilot formed the “Civil Air Patrol” and retrained as a civilian air ambulance service, whose work they use to raise funds.
From the text, “In social networks, the pilots actively support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, talk about how their aircraft “crushed the enemy” and rejoice at the death of “who cooperated with Raska.”