Captain Maksym Kuzminov will receive 500,000 dollars

A great story that is enough to generate a movie of a Russian pilot who defected together with his helicopter said his crew panicked when they figured out what was happening, but they couldn’t do anything as he was the only person on board who could fly it.

Ukrainian officials said a six-month plot led to the Russian Mi-8 AMTSh landing at a military air base in Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine, last month.

Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence identified the pilot as Maksym Kuzminov, a 28-year-old former captain in Russia’s 319th separate helicopter regiment.

The pilot spoke at a press conference on Tuesday where he described panic among the other Russians on board

“Nobody could put up any resistance,” he added because no one else on board knew how to fly the helicopter.

“I was calming the guys down, I told them everything was fine, that good people live here and everything will be great. But they started to get scared and behave themselves a bit aggressively, and they ran from the helicopter toward the border,” he said.

Captain Maksym Kuzminov will receive 500,000 dollars

The head of Ukraine’s intelligence agency, Kyrylo Budanov, previously told Radio Free Europe that the other two crew members on board were not aware Kuzminov was defecting, and they were “eliminated” when they tried to flee.

He said in a previous video released by Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence that “Ukraine will unequivocally win this war” because its people were united.

Captain Maksym Kuzminov flew the  Mi-8 helicopter at 32 feet above the ground 

Captain Kuzminov family was smuggled out of Russia before his defection took place.

mi-8 helicopter similar to the one Captain Maksym Kuzminov flew to Ukraine

Captain Maksym Kuzminov flew the  Mi-8 helicopter at 32 feet above the ground to avoid being seen and turned off his transponder.

Russia has largely failed in its conflict which was supposed to last for 3 days. The US and European countries have supplied weapons to Kyiv to kick out the terrorists with the latest weapon being the cluster bomb shells which the Ukranian forces are effectively using against the enemy. Ukraine is currently awaiting the ultimate firepower -The F16 TO FINISH THE JOB.