The authorities of the Ivanovo region will assist the families of the crew of the Il-22 aircraft based in the region and shot down by the Wagner PMC during the June 24 uprising. In this respect reported press service of the regional government.
“I share the pain of the loss with the families of the martyrs and offer my condolences. During his military service, each showed the qualities of a true officer: valor, courage and self-sacrifice, loyalty to his oath, honorably fulfilling his military duty. Eternal memory to the heroes, ”the press service quotes the words of Governor Stanislav Voskresensky.
According to him, the families of the soldiers who were martyred will receive all the necessary support.
June 25, Channel One war correspondent Irina Kuksenkova reportedThat the Wagnerites shot down an Il-22 with ten crew on board near Voronezh. They all died.
“When [основателя ЧВК Евгения] Prigozhin was asked at the headquarters of the Southern Military District why this plane did not attack, but fulfilled other functions – and the stupid pvoshnik in the convoy shot down everything that took off, ”said Prigozhin. Prigozhin agreed to pay 50 million rubles as compensation to the families of the deceased pilots.
One of the public pages of the Ivanovo region on VKontakte on June 27 clarifiedEight people on board were killed because the two crew members did not participate in the flight. With information Among the dead were the telegraph channel “VChK-OGPU” – the commander of the aircraft, the commander-instructor, navigator, flight engineer, technician, flight technician and two radio operators.
According to the data of several Telegram channels and the public on social networks at once, the commander of the Il-22 was 32 years old, comes from Ivanovo, left two children. The deceased radio operator was supposed to celebrate his 50th birthday this year, the senior flight engineer was 29. Instructor-commander was born in 1979 in Ivanovo. Born in 1980, the late aircraft flight engineer with the rank of captain left behind three children.
Information began to emerge on the morning of June 24 that the rebels had shot down several aircraft belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense, but at first there were no details. Then there were videos of Wagner PMC from the Strela air defense system trying to shoot down a Ka-52 helicopter over Voronezh – the missile missed and landed on a jet fuel tank at a local oil depot, which started a long fire.
In addition, the publication 161.ru published Video taken on the night of June 24 from the village of Rassvet in the Rostov region. It shows how the Wagners fire at a flying helicopter.
25 June, after the rebels withdrew, Baza knowledgeable He cites a source that says at least two military helicopters and one plane were shot down.
According to this information, the first helicopter was shot down near the village of Elizavetovka in Pavlovsky district of Voronezh region at around 5 am on 24 June. According to the latest data, a war broke out between the PMCs and the army of the Ministry of Defense, which damaged several dozen residential buildings. The second helicopter was shot down by Wagnerites around 9:00 am near the village of Filonovo in the Boguchansky district of the Voronezh region.
With data military reporters, as a result of the Wagner rebellion, in addition to the Il-22, a total of six helicopters were lost on June 24: three Mi-8MTPRs equipped with electronic warfare systems, one transport Mi-8 and one Ka-52, and each Mi-35.
From the information in open sources it becomes clear that the Mi-8MTPR and Mi-8 have three crew members, and the Ka-52 and Mi-35 have two crew members. Thus, as a result of an armed mutiny, up to 24 pilots could have died, including the crew of the Il-22. At the same time, only two sides – the Ka-52 and Mi-35 – fought.
The governor of the Pskov region Mikhail Vedernikov on the Telegram channel on June 27 sent A video message confirming the death of two members of the Ka-52 crew – a lieutenant colonel and a lieutenant – assigned to the Pskov regional garrison.
At the time of writing, there was no official statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense about the number of planes crashed and personnel losses as a result of the June 24 rebellion.
The founder of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, commented on the armed uprising on 27 June for the first time since Saturday, expressing his regret over the downed military planes and helicopters.
In his speech on the evening of June 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin drew attention to the contribution of the deceased pilots to the suppression of the armed rebellion.
“The courage and sacrifice of the fallen hero pilots saved Russia from tragic devastating consequences,” said the head of state.
The next day, on June 27, while speaking to the military on the porch of the Palace of Facets in the Kremlin, Putin also noted the heroism of the pilots and asked them to honor their memory with a minute of silence.