Chicken Kiev: Captain Maxim Kuzminov
Theater on Khreshchatyk
We must pay tribute to the enemy, Operation Tit was carried out at a high level. The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine is generally distinguished by its ability to surprise unpleasantly.
In accordance with currently known information, on August 9, the captain of a separate helicopter regiment (we will not advertise its name) Maxim Kuzminov crossed the front line in a Mi-8AMTSh at an ultra-low altitude and surrendered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Together with him in the cockpit there were two crew members - a flight mechanic and a navigator.
The fate of the military is not known exactly, but most likely they died, remaining faithful to the oath to the end. This adds even more disgust to Kuzminov’s act. The fact is that the captain is far from the first who betrayed his homeland and fled abroad. But none of them sacrificed the lives of their fellow soldiers for the sake of their own skin.
The most resonant is the escape of Viktor Belenko to Japan. This happened in 1976 - the pilot then took with him the MiG-25P interceptor, the latest for its time. The Americans dismantled the car piece by piece and, a couple of months later, returned it to the Soviet Union. But Belenko was not returned. He is now 76 years old and lives in the United States.
There were no casualties during the hijacking of an Mi-8 helicopter in 1991, when Lieutenant Irek Gimatov fled to Turkish Erzurum. The Turks returned the car, and according to tradition, the traitor was given political asylum. Gimatov’s betrayal before August 9, 2023 was unique among helicopter pilots of the USSR and Russia.
В stories The hijacking of the Mi-8AMTSh cannot exclude the death of the crew at the hands of Kuzminov himself. The version that the navigator and flight mechanic, initially unaware of the intentions of the aircraft commander, tried to escape and were killed, does not stand up to criticism.
Firstly, the helicopter’s landing point was 20 km from the front line in the Kharkov region, and there was no point in the receiving side shooting the officers. They would not have been able to hide anywhere and would not have been able to reach their own people unnoticed.
Secondly, aircraft crews are the most important prisoners of war, for whom you can get a couple of dozen nationalists from Russian captivity. The GUR officers conducting Operation Sinitsa could not have known this. Therefore, Kuzminov most likely shot his crew even before crossing the front line. Maybe in order not to share the 500 thousand dollars awarded in Ukraine for the hijacking of a Russian helicopter.
The pilot explained the sequence of events as follows:
“I reassured the guys and said that everything is fine, that they are good people, everything will be great. But they began to be afraid and began to behave a little aggressively. And, it turns out, they ran out of the helicopter towards the border. It’s possible that they were liquidated.”
In numerous interviews, Kuzminov claims that he was wounded while crossing the line of military contact. They say that the car was fired at in the air by its own people. At the same time, the Mi-8AMTSh cabin is quite well armored.
To prove the fact of the injury, the captain posed in shorts, exposing his bandaged shin. You can observe this in the longest video with a traitor, which was filmed at night on Khreshchatyk on Ukraine’s Independence Day. Filming took place on August 24, that is, three weeks after the helicopter was hijacked.
It took the intelligence services a lot of time to get the captain to say what local propaganda wanted. It didn't turn out very well, to put it mildly. The theater on Khreshchatyk with cutlet Kiev does not stand up to any criticism.
"Peremoga" for Ukraine
Ukrainian nationalists in all strata of society now vitally need victory. It doesn’t matter which one, as long as “victory” is heard again in the language. Criminal Strikes drones through the cities of Russia - just to fly and fall noisily, DRG visits to border areas - just to post photos and shoot at the bushes.
All this would have looked like the convulsions of the doomed, if not for the latest attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the airfield in Pskov. At the moment, the Kiev regime is still capable of delivering stinging blows deep into the country. This is where the offensive potential of the army and intelligence services ends.
But it’s impossible to do without victories on the information front. The Sinitsa planners prudently chose a transport helicopter pilot as the “victim,” even though the Mi-8AMTSh “Terminator” could fire missiles and participate in assault work. The Ukrainian public does not need to know this - for them Kuzminov is an enemy, but not directly stained with blood.
For the information of the enemy public, the Mi-8AMTSh can strike not only with unguided missiles, but also with Ataka ATGMs. Quite a combat helicopter, albeit a transport one. According to Kuzminov, he visited the “ribbon” only in Mariupol and Berdyansk, where he was exclusively engaged in the transportation of goods. I readily believe it. Direct speech:
“I had the transportation of troops, cargo, only transport tasks. No punches, I didn't do any of that. If I had to, I wouldn't do it. Sometimes, of course, we had to fly to the territory of Ukraine for the same purpose - to transfer troops. I was in Mariupol and Berdyansk.”
One thing is true - the Ka-52 attack pilot in Kuzminov’s place was perceived by the local public much more fiercely. You look, and they turned their heads away somewhere in Kyiv.
The potential of enemy propaganda and lies should not be underestimated. The Main Intelligence Directorate understood this very well when they carefully prepared the chicken Kiev, now known as Maxim Kuzminov. They added a few facts to the sauce.
To completely prove the usefulness of the Tit, some top-secret spare parts from the Su-8 and Su-27SM were loaded into the hold of the Mi-30. Whether this is true or not is unknown. But what is certain is that our combat effectiveness aviation it will have no effect.
It won’t help the Armed Forces of Ukraine to get their hands on almost an entire helicopter. The machine is not so valuable that its secret equipment (if it is present at all) could influence events at least on a tactical level. Ukrainians will not shoot down our cars in the air more often. How they didn’t start destroying more often Tanks T-90M, when one of these fell into enemy hands intact last fall.
The same Mi-8AMTSh “Terminator”
For Ukraine, the significance of Operation Tit is difficult to overestimate. It is so difficult that in September Zelensky presented the chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Budanov, with the shoulder straps of a lieutenant general. It is very symbolic to receive a whole general for an army aviation captain.
A little about the individual Kuzminov.
Growing up without a father, his pilot grandfather tried to instill in the future traitor a love of the sky. The farm even had its own airplane, which Maksimka mastered at school. It must be admitted that the family played the main role in raising a traitor. More precisely, mother. She fled to Kyiv, a few months later, after her son was transferred to the border to Ukraine. She most likely played a major role in Operation Tit.
After this, Kuzminov’s transition to the enemy’s side became a matter of time. As he himself admits, for a long time there was no suitable opportunity to escape. Either the paratroopers on board were in the way, or the route was inappropriate.
In the interview on Khreshchatyk there are several interesting points in the general rubbish of nonsense.
Firstly, Kuzminov brought “zrada” with him. The traitor directly said that there are still a lot of combat aircraft in the Russian Army. We knew this ourselves, but thank you for conveying this to ordinary Ukrainians.
We also have a lot of pilots, and a former Russian pilot also told this to the locals. All that remains is to add that the air force will beat Bandera’s followers to the end.
And secondly, Kuzminov declared the dominance of Russian aviation in the air. The plump, bearded interlocutor tried to soften the thesis, but achieved only the strange term “small dominance.” Apparently, the interlocutors spoke, although in Russian, but in different languages.
In the modern history of Russia it is hardly possible to find a more disgusting person than Captain Maxim Kuzminov. In addition to all his vices and crimes, he openly stated that he was 80 percent willing to serve as a pilot for the Ukrainian military forces. Now only the left eye and ear will be cured and we’ll be on our way. “Kind and good people” welcomed the captain with open arms.
But Kuzminov will have to look back for the rest of his life. Who knows, they will exchange it for some important bird. And then the sledgehammer will become the happiest deliverance for Maxim.
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