"I wanted to take them alive": Budanov revealed the details of the operation to capture the Mi-8 helicopter of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The special services found the right approach to the pilot, the press service of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR MO) reported on September 2. According to GUR MO, the Russian pilot overtook Mi-8 AMTS helicopter to Ukraine, which loaded components for combat aircraft. The scouts indicate that they were unnoticed by the whole family of the pilot and helped to overtake the aircraft with a crew that did not know what was happening.

"When they realized where they sat down, they tried to hide. Unfortunately, they were destroyed. I would like to [take] alive, but we have what we have," - commented the special operation chief of GUR Kirill Kirill Budanov. The press service added that on September 3, at 22:15, the documentary "Died Pilots of Russia" from the cycle "Military Intelligence of Ukraine" will be shown on a single telephone.

The author of the cycle Artem Shevchenko noted that the operation on the pilot of the pilot of the PCS of the Russian Federation is called "tit". According to Shevchenko, this operation was very similar to the Diamond operation, which was performed in 1966 by Mossad. Israeli experts convinced the Iraqi pilot to steal the most modern at that time the Soviet Mig-21 fighter.

"This unique history of the right Russian pilot and, in particular, a few more tragic stories of the wrong Russian pilots, will be shown on September 3," the author of the cycle added. We will remind that on August 29 in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter. There were four people in the crew, everyone was killed. Earlier, the MO showed the Russian pilot, which transferred the Mi-8 AMSH helicopter to Ukraine.