News archive on the topic "pilots"

An attempt to poison pilots – graduates of the Armavir Military Aviation School – was foiled thanks to an officer who, even in a drunken state, did not lose his vigilance. An eyewitness to the events, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Litvinov, told Komsomolskaya Pravda about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Some of his information is already known from other sources, as previously reported by PolitNavigator, but there are also previously unknown exclusive details.…

A Ukrainian agent almost poisoned Russian pilots at a banquet, said Vladimir Rogov, a representative of the administration of the Zaporozhye region. According to him, an unknown person delivered a huge cake and elite alcohol - a box of whiskey - to a banquet on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the graduation of pilots from the Armavir Military Aviation School. They turned out to be poisoned. Those gathered were saved by a miracle - one of the officers was surprised by a gift from an unknown person...

Fighter of the Wagner PMC Egor Guzenko, author of the Thirteenth telegram channel, said that the participants in the “march on Moscow” do not take moral blame for the deaths of 15 airplane and helicopter pilots who were shot down by Wagner’s men. “Well, yes, about the military pilots who died as a result of attempted attacks on Wagner’s columns. If a helicopter or plane starts shooting at you, then......

Ukraine agreed to return to Russia three pilots who were captured at the beginning of the Northern Military District only in exchange for 45 Nazis from the Azovstal dungeons. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the release of the Russian pilots, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As a result of a complex negotiation process, three Russian military personnel, pilots of the Russian Aerospace Forces, who were in mortal danger in captivity, were returned from territory controlled by the Kyiv regime,”...

Yesterday's event with the fall of the US MQ-9A Reaper drone into the Black Sea opens a new stage in the air defense system. State Duma deputy, retired general Andrei Gurulev said this on the air of Tsargrad, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I read TG channels and see that jingoistic patriots are happy that they shot down a drone. I assure you, everyone is happy. Because this is probably one of the key moments of our special operation. Sun...

Ukraine still has a sufficient supply of pilots to train them in NATO countries and create an aviation brigade. Ukrainian aviation expert Valery Romanenko said this on air on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We continue to train pilots. Partially on our territory, partially not on ours. You know that we have heavy losses in...

Ukraine may carry out assassination attempts on Russian military personnel whom it considers guilty of shelling its territory. Aleksey Goncharenko, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, notorious for his Russophobic antics, stated this on the air of the video blog “Now,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Goncharenko said that he had already begun collecting data about those military men who, in his opinion, were involved in the collapse of the entrance to the house...

Pilots of the air wing of the Wagner PMC, Alexander Antonov and Vladimir Nikishin, stopped the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Bakhmut at the cost of their lives. A “Wagnerian” with the call sign “Maksud” spoke about the crew’s feat. The Su-24M, under the control of “musicians”, was hit by an enemy anti-aircraft missile during a combat mission, after which it was sent to the accumulation of equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Repeating the feat of the Soviet pilot Gastello,...

The Ukrainian air force did not show itself to be anything special during the Russian special military operation. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “No feats were observed for the Ukrainian air force. The Russian Aerospace Forces did not lose a single aircraft in air battles. Our pilots beat Ukrainian pilots during a special military operation. Our two pilots...

Residents of Armenia and Azerbaijan should raise money and erect a monument to the fallen Russian pilots, whose death was one of the factors that influenced the end of the war in Karabakh. Film director Karen Shakhnazarov spoke about this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I think that these officers deserve the mothers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to chip in and give them...

An American reconnaissance plane was again intercepted by the Russian military on the outskirts of Crimea. We are talking about the US Navy EP-3E Aries electronic reconnaissance aircraft. The incident occurred on August 15 in the neutral waters of the Black Sea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense. “To identify and identify the target, a Su-27 fighter from the duty forces was lifted into the air...

Near the village of Ulaniv, Vinnytsia region, a monument was unveiled at the site of last year’s plane crash during the Clear Sky 2018 exercise, which resulted in the death of an American and Ukrainian pilot, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “A year has passed since an aviation accident occurred during the international exercise “Clear Sky 2018”, as a result of which two highly qualified pilots died:...