Police detained the pilot of the airline who worked in the occupied Crimea
In 2014, the defendant began to cooperate voluntarily with the enemy, carrying out dispatching and controlling the movement of aircraft from the Russian Federation to the territory of the Ukrainian peninsula and in the opposite direction.
After the full-scale Russian invasion, he supported the armed aggression of the invaders and waited for the occupation of Ukraine.
Investigators of the GUNP in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city. Sevastopol established that until 2014 the suspect held the position of the dispatcher of the regional structural unit “Krymaerukh”, which controlled air traffic over the Ukrainian peninsula.
After the invasion of Crimea by the Russian armed forces, he went to work for the occupiers in a similar position in the Crimean navigation control center, knowing that Ukraine had officially ceased operation of all airports in the occupied territory. Thus, he facilitated the illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine.
Later he moved to the mainland and took a job at one of the Ukrainian airlines as a pilot. And after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the suspect began to actively support and justify Russia's armed aggression. Through his own account on a Russian social network banned in Ukraine, the man spread Russian propaganda narratives and waited for the occupation of Ukraine.
Law enforcement officers detained the suspect in Kyiv region. During the search, he found a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, Russian currency, documents confirming his criminal activities.
Under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor's Office of the AR and the city. Sevastopol attacker was informed of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 332 (Illegal transfer of persons across the state border) and part 1, part 3 of Art. 436-2 (Justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
For committing these crimes, the suspect faces up to eight years in prison.
National Police of Ukraine
