Mercenary pilot of Wagner PMC battled for three days and was shot down by Ukrainian defenders.

Mercenary pilot from Wagner PMC fights for three days and is downed by Ukrainian defenders

The ruscist flew first combat sortie on June 14, and already on the 17th he was taken prisoner. Now he is telling the SSU how he dropped bombs on Ukraine. He tries to justify himself and says that it was only a matter of ‘striking at strongholds, sites with concentration of enemy forces and manpower.’ However, when he saw the results of russia’s strikes on Ukrainian settlements on the video, the occupier’s self-confidence waned and he ‘suddenly’ realized that this was ‘not the right war, not a necessary war.’ The pilot flew 1-2 combat sorties a day. He admits that, apart from him, there are other mercenaries, not russian army pilots, who fly russian fighter jets worth over USD 10 mln. Mercenaries receive a wage of RUB 200,000 a month and additional bonuses for quantity and ‘effectiveness’ of sorties. The main purpose of stay in Ukraine, according to the pilot, was ‘assisting the republics of Donbas’, while his combat sorties were ‘specific tasks.’ Well, now he will tell the SSU Military Counterintelligence in detail about those ‘specific tasks.’