Prigozhin promised to pay 50 million rubles for the Il-22 control and relay plane shot down by Wagner PMC fighters
The air command post based on the Il-22 aircraft was shot down near Voronezh by a fighter of the Wagner PMC, this was admitted by the curator of the Orchestra, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The Russian military control and relay aircraft Il-22, which did not inflict any strikes on the columns of the PMC "Wagner", was indeed shot down by the fighters of the "Orchestra", this was admitted by Prigozhin. According to him, the plane in the Voronezh region was shot down "by mistake", and it was done by a "fool air defense officer" who was following in one of the columns. Thus, ten people died and the Ministry of Defense lost the plane.
- Prigozhin answered the question about the downed plane.
The curator of PMC "Wagner" promised to compensate for the damage by paying 5 million rubles to the families of those who died as a result of the "mistake" of a PMC fighter. In total, Prigozhin is ready to pay 50 million rubles for a plane hit by MANPADS. The Ministry of Defense did not comment on the loss of the aircraft. In general, the military department did not disseminate any information about the loss of military equipment as a result of attacks on the Orchestra columns.
Also, the "musicians" shot down two helicopters in the Voronezh region, these are data confirmed by various sources. The first helicopter was shot down on Saturday morning near the village of Elizavetovka in the Pavlovsk region, the second was hit near the village of Filonovo in the Boguchar region. In both cases, the rotorcraft crews survived. In addition, four more helicopters were shot down, but there is less information on them.
The Ministry of Defense has not yet reported who gave the order to attack the Wagner PMC columns, which ended with the loss of six helicopters and one aircraft. The Russian army did not suffer such one-time losses even from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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