Il-76 crashed in Sudan: obituaries of the Russian crew were shown on the network (photo)

Kazanskyi published the details of the IL-76 plane crash around 10 a. m. on November 7. The post indicated that there were three Russians and one Belarusian on the plane. There is also a scanned copy of the letter that Sudan sent to the families of the victims. The document is drawn up on the corporate letterhead of the Defense Industries System (Moscow Defense Industrial System of the Republic of Sudan), with official signatures and seals.

The names of the crew of the Russian IL-76 are Russians Dmytro Kotlyarov, Dmytro Donskih, Dmytro Yegorov and Belarusian Oleksandr Gryaznov. The families were promised targeted payments and informed that the plane crash was the result of a "tragic incident", and it is not yet known who is responsible for it. Subsequently, journalist and military serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yury Butusov published new details of the Il-76 incident in Sudan.

The journalist explained that the letter from the Ministry of Defense confirms that the plane is involved in the transportation of weapons, and that the Russians and Belarusians are mercenaries who "exported death. " The positions were specified in the Russian public: commander Kotlyarov, navigator Egorov, second navigator Donskih, flight engineer Gryaznov. In addition, the post contains obituary boxes published by a Russian airline: the date of the incident is indeed November 4.

"The obituaries of two of them have already been published in the internal chats of publics related to Russian aviation," the post reads. On Kotlyarov's obituary, we see that the Il-76 commander participated in the war in Sudan as an aviation pilot with 17 years of experience. Gryaznov's obituary shows that he was a military personnel, a Belarusian who was educated at the Irkutsk Higher Aviation School and specialized in "special aircraft and power plants".

It should be noted that on November 5, videos from Sudan appeared on the network, in which the rebels of the Rapid Support Force (RSF) rejoiced at the downing of the Il-76 plane. Video from the scene showed the moment the aircraft went down, the wreckage engulfed in flames, and the wreckage after everything had gone down, surrounded by militants.

Even then, social networks assumed that there was a Russian crew on board, and the plane itself, as it turned out, was bought a month and a half ago for 12 million dollars. in Kyrgyzstan. The next day it became known what exactly was used to shoot down the Russian IL-76. Fragments of a Chinese anti-aircraft missile from the FK-2000 complex were found among the wreckage: it turned out that the air defense system was bought from the United Arab Emirates.