https://kyivindependent.com/russian-pilo...0-dollars/

Half a million USD for one traitor is a lot for a broke country.

Since Ukraine has so much money to throw around, this might spur massive defections. All these traitors are going to get Ukrainian citizenship and just going to go about their lives with absolutely no consequences. Shameful people. Too bad they’ll never have to answer for being traitors.

Thoughts and prayers.

Would probably be appealing if the pilots didn't have family in Russia to face retaliation. Ukraine doesn't have to fight them if they just buy all Russia's soldiers.

(02-20-2024 02:47 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  Would probably be appealing if the pilots didn't have family in Russia to face retaliation. Ukraine doesn't have to fight them if they just buy all Russia's soldiers.

The defector was just killed in Spain---possibly by Russian operatives---maybe by common street thugs--I suspect the former. The guy probably should have stayed in Ukraine for a good while. As for Ukraine giving the guy a half million---thats a pretty cheap price for an operational Mi-8 helicopter along with the cargo it was carrying (airplane parts for the Su-27 and Su-30). The Ukrainians do fly the Su-27--so some of those parts are useful. I believe the half million is only for Russians who defect with certain equipment like airplanes or tanks.

Quote:A man’s corpse, found riddled with bullets and run over by a vehicle in Spain last week, was identified as that of Russian military pilot Maksim Kuzminov, who flew his Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine in a dramatic defection in August, Ukrainian officials said.
His apparent murder — after a very public threat to his life last year on Russian state television — has raised questions about whether this was a Russian-ordered assassination carried out on European soil.

Quote:"This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse at the very moment when he planned his dirty and terrible crime," Russian state news agencies quoted Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, as saying on Tuesday. He did not confirm or deny any Russian involvement in the former pilot's death.

I don’t think it was the Russians. And the Saudis did not kill Jamal Khashoggi either.

(02-20-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

Quote:A man’s corpse, found riddled with bullets and run over by a vehicle in Spain last week, was identified as that of Russian military pilot Maksim Kuzminov, who flew his Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine in a dramatic defection in August, Ukrainian officials said.
His apparent murder — after a very public threat to his life last year on Russian state television — has raised questions about whether this was a Russian-ordered assassination carried out on European soil.

Quote:"This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse at the very moment when he planned his dirty and terrible crime," Russian state news agencies quoted Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, as saying on Tuesday. He did not confirm or deny any Russian involvement in the former pilot's death.

I don’t think it was the Russians. And the Saudis did not kill Jamal Khashoggi either.

And idgaf about either. Frick jamal

(02-20-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

Quote:A man’s corpse, found riddled with bullets and run over by a vehicle in Spain last week, was identified as that of Russian military pilot Maksim Kuzminov, who flew his Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine in a dramatic defection in August, Ukrainian officials said.
His apparent murder — after a very public threat to his life last year on Russian state television — has raised questions about whether this was a Russian-ordered assassination carried out on European soil.

Quote:"This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse at the very moment when he planned his dirty and terrible crime," Russian state news agencies quoted Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, as saying on Tuesday. He did not confirm or deny any Russian involvement in the former pilot's death.

I don’t think it was the Russians. And the Saudis did not kill Jamal Khashoggi either.

And many dont believe any politicians here have a body count list. That must be why there’s no investigations going on

The nation is awfully worried about what happens elsewhere, but takes a giant collective shrug about our own dirty doings. Meanwhile, the rest of world thinks we are no different from what we accuse Russia of being. And when they hear us criticize everyone else, they just laugh, and laugh, and laugh.