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Irreparable hijacking
As attempts by Ukrainian and Russian special services, to fool each other led to a criminal case against Christ Grozev and the arrest of the officer of the SBU of Chervinsky
Christ Grozhev. Photo: Reuters
On July 25, 2022, the FSB was accused of Christ Grozev, the famous investigator Bellingcat, trying to hijack a combat aircraft.
Grozhev himself evaluated his success more modest.
He said that after the Verkhovna Rada promised Russian pilots a million dollars of remuneration for each aircraft transferred to the Armed Forces, a number of former and current employees of the Ukrainian intelligence services started a game with Russian pilots. Grozhev followed the game on the rights of the observer, was going to make a film.
However, very soon it became clear that the parties were breeding each other, and it finally became clear when one of the pilots asked for a “mistress” from Russia instead of his wife. Grozev struck her in billing and immediately found out that the lady had nothing to do with the pilot, but he had contacts with the special services.
After that, both sides drove each other for some time by the nose: some sent false air defense maps, others - fake cards of reduction and approaching, and everything ended in nothing.
Although the organizers of the special operation from the Ukrainian side were not called then, it was not difficult to guess them. “Former employees” could only be the former head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vasily Bourb and his team. Those who tried to kidnap three dozen Wagnerians - to take them through Belarus under the guise of working in Venezuela, land a plane in Kyiv and capitalize. The operation fell off after it was postponed the office of the President of Zelensky: the Wagnerians were detained in Belarus, there was a lot of noise. The burgu was fired. Christ Grozev was going to make a film about this story, but it seems that the main characters of the film also decided to use the shooting as a tool, and there is still no film.
One way or another, the story with the plane looked rather dumb and it seems to have taken out the Kremlin. Grozov was declared war not for life, but for death. He was forced to leave Austria where he had lived before, and look for refuge in the United States.
In essence, he commented dryly that while Putin is in the Kremlin, Europe for him, Grozev, is unsafe.
On April 21, Christ Grozev was arrested in absentia in Moscow.
The story on this could be finished - if not for the continuation.
Three days after the absenteeism in Moscow, Grozhev in Ukraine is by no means in absentia,-the former SBU, GUR and MSC officer (yes, alternately all at once!) Roman Chervinsky, who at one time was the right hand of the bourgeut, detained.
Cause?
All the same hijacking of the aircraft. According to the plot of the prosecution, it was the actions of Chervinsky that led no less than the massive blow of the Russian Federation on the Kanatovo airfield on July 23, 2022. During the hit, the commander of the unit died, and 17 military personnel were injured.
Before the detention of Roman Chervinsky, the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk said that the operation was underway without coordination with state bodies and contrary to the comments of the SBU. “A villain, whose actions led to the death of one Ukrainian military and another 17 wounds, must bear a well -deserved punishment,” said Malyuk .
Let me remind you that Ukrainian special services are traditionally measured with each other. More recently, the new head of GUR Kirill Budanov publicly accused the new head of the counterintelligence of the SBU of Poklad of eliminating his agent, banker Ruslan Kireev, and even stated that Kireev is a kind of Ukrainian Richard Sorge, who saved Kyiv from capture.
In no way, I do not want to go here to the essence of the dispute between the former head of Gur Vasily Burbo and the President of Zelensky. I can only say that Vasily Bourba is not a gift, and he obeyed Zelensky in much the same way as some Duke of Normandy-the king of France in the age of the XII-m.
This is the problem of all Ukrainian special services. They behave like feudal dukes, advocating an increase in their own status, allowing themselves to be often spying on their own governments. How do you, for example, have an attempt to play with a brother of a high -ranking official, the eyeliner's eyeliner?
This makes them such vivid adventurers and individuals, and many operations of the Ukrainian special services are carried out during this war - this impression is not so much for the unconditional good of the state, but to raise prestige and increase influence.
In this sense, an attempt by a retired duke with the help of vassals remaining in the service of stealing a plane and regain the status - the classic of the genre.
But the charges against the novel Chervinsky are not very clear. Kanatovo was bombed for the first time on March 1 . Then- on March 13th , and 7 soldiers died. On May 5, Konashenkov reported on Kanatovo’s strike.
July 23, two days before the blow, the air forces of Ukraine published this tweet . On it is a combat aircraft that takes off from the Kanatovo airfield. Geolocying the place from where he took off is a short -lived business.
At the disposal of the author of this article there are commercial pictures of the airfield in Kanatovo of June 12, 2022. The location of combat aircraft is clearly visible on them. This is the very location by which a blow was struck. If these pictures can quickly get a journalist, it is difficult to imagine that they are outside the reach of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Christ Grozev wrote that mutual game was disclosed long before the end of July. After that, the parties did not tell each other any important information - they just fooled their heads.
Perhaps one of the most important information was that one of the pilots with whom the negotiations was conducted, Tveritin, was among those who bombed Mariupol.
It is impossible to imagine that the operation was carried out completely “without coordination”. How could the real air defense maps be “without coordination” by the STR officer (who then obeyed the direct General Staff)? And if the meaning of the prosecution is that the plane was waiting on July 25, and the rocket flew in: sorry, but you can’t start a stateism case for every unsuccessful special operation!
Roman Chervinsky is a legendary character. It was he who stole from Donbass Vladimir Tsemakh, a witness in the MN-17 case, a “air defense chief” in the city of Snezhnoye. This Chervinsky directly managed the entire project for the future "Wagnergate". As part of the SSO, Roman Chervinsky from the first days of the war was behind the front line, attacking a column with Russian armored vehicles. “Cool, such as a Mossadovets,” wrote to the author of the real lines about the Chervinsky Christ Grozev.
Under these conditions, Chervinsky’s accusations look like a political accounts.
As I said, I'm not going to take someone's side in this struggle. Bourba is by no means a disastrous sheep, and I have no doubt that he and his allies use this case for the most destructive and dishonest propaganda against Zelensky. Well, then why was it to climb into it?