The fall of IL-76 near Belgorod: "Schemes" set the names of members of the Russian crew (photo)
According to the media, the corresponding crew belonged to the 117th Military Transport Aviation Regiment with a deployment in Orenburg of the Russian Federation. Journalists managed to receive a list of six people intended to accompany this flight, they checked their positions and affiliation with military aviation.
The death of three people, including the commander of the ship Stanislav Bezubkin (36 years), navigator Alexei Vysokin and Bortnder Andriy Piluyev (38 years), was confirmed by their relatives. According to journalists, the wife of the commander of the ship Stanislav Bezubkin, Marika Bezubkin, confirmed his death and reported that she had been announced at the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
She specified that she had last communicated with her husband at about 7:30 in the morning, when he, she said, had to fly from Moscow. According to the Schemes, the wife of the board engineer Andriy Piluyev indicated that she was aware of the death of her husband, but was not officially given the details of the incident. Journalists with reference to open sources report that Piluyev received a medal "for the return of Crimea" and was awarded for participation in fighting in Syria.
The cousin of the navigator Alexei Vysokina confirmed the death of her brother, receiving this information from his parents. In addition, on social networks there were comments with expressions about the death of the onboard radist Igor Sablinsky. Journalists emphasize that the flight service should also be involved in the flight engineer of the airborne equipment Sergey Zhitonev, but there is currently no independent confirmed information about his death.
According to the media, the origins from Russian databases indicate that five crew members had to serve in the 117th Military Transport Aviation Regiment. Similar information was published by the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in March 2022, indicating Bezubkin, Vysokin, Piluyev, Zhituenov and Sablinsky in the list of regiment servicemen, which, according to them, "deliver weapons and ammunition for the murder of civilians of Ukraine.
" The 117th Regiment, located in the Orenburg region, is military unit No. 45097. According to journalists, this regiment specializes in the service of military vehicles that carry special cargoes to meet the needs of the army of Russian invaders. The planes of the respective regiment are based on the aerodrome in Orenburg. The information of the Russian Federation that the Ukrainian captives were also on board, and the Schema journalists have not been able to check.
The media, citing sources in the Armed Forces, reported that the IL-76 aircraft was knocked down by the Ukrainian military. But later in the updated news, this information was not confirmed with reference to other sources. Sources of journalists in the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that the aircraft was transporting rockets for the C-300 SPR. Russian sources wrote that the IL-76 aircraft was previously used to cross Ukrainian prisoners of war.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Defense of Prisoners of Pursuing (KSPPV) called on not to disseminate unconfirmed data on the fall of IL-76, which allegedly transported Ukrainian prisoners of war. Representatives of the staff recalled that the Russian Federation is actively conducting information operations to destabilize Ukrainian society.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called the event "an act of crazy terrorism" and stated that in this way Kiev "casts doubt on the possibility of any arrangements. " The governor of the Belgorod region reported that none of the passengers who were aboard the plane that fell in the Korochany district did not survive. Earlier, when asked whether Kremlin Putin's head was known about what happened, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov said it was a new information.