“Corruption, incompetence and lack of strategic vision lead to anti-state decisions, Budanov noted”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“We, as a country and a nation that pays an extremely high price in the fight for our own freedom, have no right to allow the repetition of such mistakes and crimes. A very useful and important investigation indeed. Thank you to the “Scheme” team for this important work,” wrote the head of the GUR in a telegram.
Previously, the journalists of “Schem” (Radio Liberty) using the analysis of the serial numbers of the aircraft in the agreement of those times, which were searched in the archive, data from international air registers and comparison with the numbers of bombers used by the Russian Federation, recorded by the Main Directorate of Intelligence, found out that the army The Russian Federation uses Ukrainian strategic bombers, which the official Kyiv transferred to Moscow within the framework of the agreement between the governments of the two countries in 1999 in exchange for debt repayment for consumed Russian gas.
At least six of the transferred Tu-160 aircraft are in active service with the Russian army. The journalists also identified Russian pilots who were appointed in the Russian Federation to control the transferred Ukrainian bombers, and who are now called by Ukrainian intelligence to be involved in massive missile attacks on Ukraine.