Pilot Maxim Kuzminov, hijacked a Russian military helicopter from Kursk and transported it to Ukraine, for 500 thousand dollars promised by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the landing of the Mi-8, the entire crew was killed by Ukrainians, and Kuzminov himself gives interviews in Kiev and calls the death of his comrades liquidation.
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00:00 The Russian pilot hijacked a Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine for $500,000.
00:07 Pilot Maxim Kuzminov hijacked a Russian military helicopter from Kursk and transported it to
00:14 Ukraine for $500,000 promised by the command of the armed forces of Ukraine.
00:23 During the landing of the Mi-8, the entire crew was killed by Ukrainians, and Kuzminov
00:29 himself gives interviews in Kiev and calls the death of his comrades liquidation.
00:36 Back in 2017, Kuzminov was sick of aviation and showed in his social networks how he flies
00:44 in honor of honored military pilots of the Russian Federation.
00:49 But then something went wrong.
00:51 In recent years, the young man was raving about money.
00:56 His favorite quote, repeatedly repeated in social networks, was "If you want to take
01:02 revenge on someone or annoy someone, just get rich."
01:07 The guy also attached great importance to the financial situation of his acquaintances.
01:14 The special services of Ukraine, who noticed the mercantile young man, recruited him in
01:21 March and kept in touch for six months, promising a huge sum, new documents, and the safety
01:28 of relatives.
01:30 During this time, Kuzminov carefully prepared.
01:34 He sold his car, apartment and sent his mother to Ukraine.
01:39 A colleague of the pilot told reporters that Kuzminov was assigned only peaceful tasks
01:46 in Russia, because he asked the leadership not to send him to combat missions in the
01:52 zone of his own for moral reasons.
01:54 It is not known whether the pilot's command had any questions about his position.
02:01 The Russian Defense Ministry did not comment on the "defector's act."