Together with pilot Maxim Kuzminov , who hijacked a helicopter to Ukraine, there were two servicemen on board the Mi-8. The Baza Telegram channel writes about this.
According to the source, one of the servicemen on board was Nikita, a graduate of the Voronezh Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky and Gagarin. The second is a citizen of Uzbekistan, Khurshed. The young man came to study in the Russian Federation as an exchange student and graduated from the Syzran Flight School.
Nikita and Khurshed are the same age as 28-year-old Kuzminov. They served with him in the Primorsky Territory. The current location of the servicemen is currently officially unknown.
As the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Kirill Budanov admitted, after landing they resisted, as a result of which they were killed. Kuzminov himself also confirmed the information about the liquidation of the young people.
At the same time, the relatives of the servicemen were still not officially informed about their fate.