Suspected of working on the Russian Federation: in Crimea died convicted of "Sknyliv tragedy" pilot Toponar

20. 5 years after a plane crash in the Lviv region, rumors spread that Vladimir Toponar was "offended by Ukraine" and attacked the Kiev region on the side of the Russian Federation. His son claims that the pilot has recently been chained to bed and died of cancer. In the temporarily occupied Crimea, pilot Vladimir Toponar died on January 21, who was in prison in the case of a plane crash at the Sknyliv airfield in the Lviv region, which happened on July 27, 2002.

The network has rumored that the pilot fought on the side of the Russian Federation after the start of a full -scale war, but his son, the Ukrainian pilot, denies it. This is stated in the material "BBC News Ukraine" of February 1. Vladimir Topoar was born in 1957 in the village of Sleeping near Torrez, which was now occupied by Russian troops. The man studied the engine at the Kharkiv Air Institute and then studied at the pilot at the Chernihiv Aviation School.

He graduated from the training of test pilots, and after the collapse of the USSR served in the Crimea as part of the Air Force forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 1995 he got to the elite pilot group "Ukrainian Falcons" as a high -class pilot. He got to the rank of colonel, but on July 27, 2002, his career was cut short. Then at the Sknyliv airfield near Lviv during the air show the Su-27 fighter, performing the figures of the highest pilotage, fell on the audience and exploded.

As a result of a plane crash, 78 people (including 28 children) were killed and about 250 people were killed. The pilots of the aircraft, including the topotar, managed to catapult. In 2005, the court issued sentences in the Sknyliv tragedy - a toponar received 14 years in prison and a fine of UAH 7. 2 million. The pilot did not recognize his guilt. In total, in the colony, the Toponar spent eight years and released in 2013.

After that, he settled near Kagarlyk in the Kiev region, married for the second time, built a house, started a farm and got a specialist in printer repair. According to the former head of the prison system of Ukraine, Sergei Stary, in February 2022, a few days before the start of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, was taken on an ambulance to the Crimea, where he allegedly joined the Russian Air Force and participated in shelling of the Kyiv region.

Answering the questions of journalists, the old man assured that he received such information from several sources. "It is according to the villagers with whom he lived in the village. It is first. And secondly, it is according to the convicts with whom he served his sentence. That is, they support Russian). They called him, and he told them that he was offended by Ukraine, "the interlocutor of the publication said.

In the answers to the requests of journalists, the Ukrainian authorities stated that there was no information about the participation of a toponar in the war on the side of the aggressor. In a comment to the pilot's son Ivan Toponar, who has been involved in the war since 2014, rejected all the accusations against his father. According to him, Vladimir Toponar found an inoperable tumor, then placed in a hospital in Kerch.

In recent months, the man was chained to bed, often fainting, and on January 21, 2023 he died. Ivan also reported that he had not discussed the theme of the war in Ukraine with his father, as such conversations could be dangerous. "He only told me to keep myself and everything," Ivan said. Earlier, we wrote that 10 people were liable for the tragedy, 5 of which were justified.