In the Bryansk region, near the village of Butovsk near the border with the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, a Ukrainian light aircraft crashed. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the border department of the FSB for the region.
The pilot, who, according to the agency, «tried to escape to Ukrainian territory», was detained.
The Telegram channel Mash soon posted a photo of him being held with his hands clasped behind his back, a policeman and men in camouflage, and Baza a three-minute video of the interrogation of the detainee by the security forces.
The man introduces himself as a civilian pilot Alexander Morozov. Journalists from the Kharkiv region wrote about his private airfield and “volunteer air ambulance.”
Morozov says to a camera from a forest in the Bryansk region that he had the task of “flying at low altitude behind the leader and, at the command of the leader, to photograph, when he says», to «check the work of our air defense», and he did not know that he would fly to Russia.
According to Baza, there were «a submachine gun, ammunition, and bulletproof vest» next to the plane.
Updated at 20:47 and 21: 51. Added quotes from Baza video.