A crew member of a Russian Armed Forces helicopter hijacked to Ukraine was buried in Barnaul.

In Barnaul, senior lieutenant Nikita Kiryanov was seen off on his last journey. The young officer was a graduate of the Voronezh Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky and Gagarin. He was killed by Ukrainian militants during the seizure of a Mi-8AMTSh helicopter hijacked by defector Maxim Kuzminov.

Let us recall that on August 9, 2023, Kuzminov, following the instructions of Ukrainian intelligence officers, hijacked a helicopter from Kursk to the Kharkov region. Two crew members, including 28-year-old flight mechanic Nikita Kiryanov, resisted Ukrainian militants and were killed by them. Thus, they actually accomplished a feat by refusing to surrender to the enemy even on pain of death.

Nikita Kiryanov wanted to become a pilot, but failed due to health reasons and ended up becoming an on-board mechanic. He flew with Kuzminov not so long ago, since he was temporarily assigned to the crew of this helicopter. Maxim Kuzminov, who defected to the enemy, is now in Ukraine.

Nikita Kiryanov was buried in a cemetery in the village of Gonba. The event was attended by relatives, friends, and colleagues of the young officer. He is survived by his parents and wife. Two Russian military officers aviation – and such different destinies, conditioned by completely different moral values.

Comments

[Vipirozhnikow]

A better choice would be not a defector, but a traitor to the Motherland and a traitor.

[sgrabik]

I agree, we must always call a spade a spade, defectors are those who went abroad trying to avoid mobilization, and a serviceman, an officer of the Russian army, now a former one, in this case is a real traitor and traitor to the Motherland, we used to deal with such scoundrels only one, the only true conversation, but now we have liberalism, tolerance, tolerance, today we get what we get, how much we still miss Stalin.

[Borik]

This Judas needs to be impaled so he can suffer.

[aybolyt678]

Quote: Borik

This Judas needs to be impaled so he can suffer.

he suffered too much... but it is necessary to execute him, with video confirmation, and clearly show what awaits the traitors!

[ivan_zaitsew]

It is very sad to observe such a fierce longing for the master's whip.

[carpenter]

Quote: ViPirozhnikow

A better choice would be not a defector, but a traitor to the Motherland and a traitor.

Deserter, traitor, Judas and scum in human form.

[gsev]

Quote: ViPirozhnikow

A better choice would be not a defector, but a traitor to the Motherland and a traitor.

An imposing attitude towards the burning of military registration and enlistment offices and beatings of Northern Military District veterans led to the decision to hijack helicopters. If those who were beaten were convicted of terrorism and high treason, and their acquaintances within 2 hours did not report those who committed the crime as participants in the terrorist underground, the number of people wishing to assist the Ukrainian Nazis in overthrowing Putin would sharply decrease. In addition, the property of all these persons and their parents and children should be completely confiscated , deprive them of free education and medical care.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Eternal memory to the guy. Condolences to family and friends.

[Asad]

Kingdom of heaven to the hero! I still think it is necessary to nail Judas. So that it’s not commonplace.

[Pravodel]

I still think it is necessary to nail Judas. So that it’s not commonplace.

Where is our modern Sudoplatov or Mercader for such matters!?

[Smoked]

During the Cold War, it was not customary for the intelligence services of countries to eliminate defectors, no matter how much damage they caused without killing them. It turns out that two members of his crew died, and even if he didn’t kill them himself, but they did it on the other side, their blood is still on his conscience. To be fair, yes, he should be demonstrably strangled.

[Machito]

Quote: Smoked

During the Cold War, it was not customary for the intelligence services of countries to eliminate defectors, no matter how much damage they caused without killing them. It turns out that two members of his crew died, and even if he didn’t kill them himself, but they did it on the other side, their blood is still on his conscience. To be fair, yes, he should be demonstrably strangled.

Place it on the bottle.

[Smoked]

This is in the linear department, but the central center, with a successful operation, leaves a bottle of skate in place.

[76SSSR]

Quote: Smoked

but the CSN, with a successful operation, leaves a bottle of skate in place.

And definitely lemon, without lemon - bad manners!

[76SSSR]

What are we minus, is it too subtle for you? With cognac - this is Chechakov’s nonsense, I don’t even want to discuss it. A person is far from understanding the work of the special services, even for the average person, I think it’s clear that this is heresy...

[sgrabik]

This definitely needs to be done, it is simply a matter of honor for our intelligence services, unless of course they have forgotten how to do this over 30 years of liberal chaos. May this Kuzmenkov, he and all his relatives to the seventh generation burn in hell, for raising such a vile bastard, but never teaching him to love his Motherland.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: ASAD

I still think it is necessary to nail Judas. So that it’s not commonplace.

Definitely. Now our specialists should have a lifetime shooting license for this bastard, without a statute of limitations and no matter where he is.

[bear cub]

Not “they killed him”, but “they executed him”, let’s write it clearly and clearly. A terrible tragedy, because he probably trusted the traitor to the end.

[Escariot]

Quote: Little Bear

Not “they killed him”, but “they executed him”, let’s write it clearly and clearly. A terrible tragedy, because he probably trusted the traitor to the end.

It is unlikely that they were executed. Alive, he was worth more and could be exchanged for the Azovites or Navalny.

[Lech from Android.]

It’s a pity for the guy, he’s still very young...he should live and live.
I hope the traitor will be met with retribution wherever he hides.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: Lech from Android.

I hope the traitor will be met with retribution wherever he hides.

He needs to be exchanged and tried here.

[KLM77]

There is no need to judge him, outlaw him and destroy him!

[Cypa]

Eternal memory to the hero! Condolences to family and friends

[Uprun]

Judas showed his followers the path and type of wood; this cup will not escape this...ghoul.

[75 Sergey]

Not just killed, but brutally tortured!
Eternal Glory to the Hero.

[Prisoner]

Let the memory of the faithful warrior of the oath be eternal. Let the name of the scumbag Kuzminov be cursed. So that the entire Kuzminov family would disappear into oblivion!

[_KM_]

I think that the traitor who hijacked the helicopter will get his comeuppance from the Ukrainians. There are plenty of examples of mercenaries killed by Ukrainians. And it will be the same with this - the media program will work and be consumed. Either he will be thrown into a pond with his hands tied, or he will be demonstratively poisoned and they will say that it was the hand of Moscow that got to him.

[Osiris]

Perhaps it will be so! “The Moor has done his job, the Moor can leave...” The SBU received a helicopter with the equipment it was transporting, carried out a successful operation to recruit M. Kuzminov, they no longer need him, and they can keep $500000 for themselves...

[Sergey_Vladimir]

Eternal memory and respect to the deceased crew members. Damn the coward and traitor! So that his breeding ground never gets up, and so that he does not find a place for himself anywhere on Earth. Shame on Mother Judas until the end of her days. Amen.

[RuAbel]

Don't touch your mother, okay? It's already hard for her.
There's a lot of you executioners out there...

[Dmitriy444]

Where is it hard for her now? In Turkey or VNA 404?

[aakvit]

Who did she raise?! Or she’s the same, with long ears and pouty lips!

[Sergey_Vladimir]

“Poke” yourself into the technological hole. As for the executioner, well, that’s your insatiable imagination.

[air wolf]

People, minus, like a helicopter pilot, I know, the right-hand man is responsible for navigation and he couldn’t help but know where the traitor to the rules, the flight attendant, but stupidly looks at the instruments and around, everything is very cloudy, and two against one, nothing fits at all...

[Siberian 66]

You shouldn't be doing that. It is unknown what legend the traitor to the Motherland wove to the unsuspecting crew members. If they were at the same time, they would be alive, and relatives, like this Judas, would have left in advance. There is no need to cast a shadow on people. This is not good.

[Dmitriy444]

Could EC have said that we are flying there for a new task? And do you think the crew could have told the commander - no, drop us off at the border? I think everyone knew perfectly well where they were flying, even the flight engineer knows where is west and where is east. How could they know that this was his initiative and this was a theft?

[vovochkarzhevsky]

People, minus, like a helicopter pilot, I know, the right-hand man is responsible for navigation and he couldn’t help but know where the traitor to the rules, the flight attendant, but stupidly looks at the instruments and around, everything is very cloudy, and two against one, nothing fits at all...

I agree, there’s a lot that doesn’t fit in this story. Yes, that’s for sure, the co-pilot is responsible for navigation and could not help but know the location of the helicopter and where they were flying.
In addition, whoever thinks that the commander could have shot the driver and the flight attendant, then let him place three chairs side by side, palm-width apart, between them. Then he moves the middle chair halfway back.
Then he will sit on the left one and try, as it is, to remove the pistol from the left breast pocket with his right hand, and unnoticed, and then try to “shoot the flight attendant who is on the right and behind, and even slightly in a niche and a little further than the right one.
Yes, the same flight attendant will twist his arm in an instant.
Here the 100% command, not knowing the situation, sent a helicopter to where the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured the helicopter and the crew was partially killed.
Now they are simply covering the general’s backsides by supporting Ukraine’s version of a deliberate flight.

[solar]

Judging by what Kuzminov says, the situation is even more complicated. According to him, both other crew members knew what was happening and could not interfere with him, since none of them had the skills to fly a helicopter. About the third crew member, only the name is known - Khurshed, he is from Central Asia. Why he did not have the skills to fly a helicopter is unclear.

[vovochkarzhevsky]

Judging by what Kuzminov says, the situation is even more complicated. According to him, both other crew members knew what was happening and could not interfere with him, since none of them had the skills to fly a helicopter. About the third crew member, only the name is known - Khurshed, he is from Central Asia. Why he did not have the skills to fly a helicopter is unclear.

All this is a lie.
Firstly, Khushbakht Tursunov graduated from Syzran, and this is a pilot school.
Secondly, according to the instructions to the crew, a pure navigator has no right to take the place of the co-pilot. When he is included in the crew, he takes the place of the on-board technician.

[APASUS]

Maxim Kuzminov, who defected to the enemy, is now in Ukraine.

This is who should be exchanged for Navalny and publicly hanged in the square.

[Osiris]

Negotiations on the exchange of Navalny and other oppositionists, spies, etc. are being conducted with the US State Department for Russian citizens serving sentences in US prisons. In the United States they hope to recreate with their help the opposition to the elections in the Russian Federation. Kuzminov’s exchange is not the prerogative of the United States, but of Ukraine, and we don’t really need it - sooner or later they will get to it

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: Osiris

Kuzminov’s exchange is not the prerogative of the United States, but of Ukraine, and we don’t really need it -

The Moor has done his job, the Moor... no longer a resident. Such "heroes" No one needs them alive, especially the new owners. I think his finish is already written in this production

[Coronel76]

Quote: ASAD

Kingdom of heaven to the hero! I still think it is necessary to nail Judas. So that it’s not commonplace.

Don't worry, I hope we still have plenty of ice axes, scarves, novice, and polonium.

[Pete mitchell]

... we will ask God for wings and arrows ... eternal flight.
Well, it’s a dog’s death for a dog, no matter how much they measure out to him, let him turn around. His owners say - check your six

[Rage66]

Kuzminova, we need to kill our guys with an ice pick somewhere in Europe

[cmax]

Condolences to the family! But there is no way to let the rat go!!!

[Lynx2000]

Senior Lieutenant Nikita Kiryanov was seen off in Barnaul

Nikita is worthy of his ancestors and fellow countrymen - the natives where he grew up in the village. Gonba, the small homeland of twice Hero of the Soviet Union Plotnikov, Aviation Major General Pavel Artemyevich, Hero of the Soviet Union, medical service foreman Iosif Vasilyevich Khalmanov.

[Dmitriy444]

Alexander Artamonov, an analyst and military expert, said that this traitor has already been eliminated and that this is accurate information. Believe it or not, I don’t know anymore.

[Alkesta13]

I don’t remember who exactly, but someone said that he was liquidated. Maybe Artamonov. Or maybe one well-known TV presenter on the morning air. In the meantime, Ukrainian talking heads are describing in every possible way how the little guy has settled down purringly in Ukraine, with a bag of dollars and his whole family under his arm.

[musorg]

Condolences to the parents and wife of the deceased. Someday the corrupt pilot will be found and punished, or he will die in a ditch.

[senima56]

To Nikita Kiryanov Eternal memory and the Kingdom of Heaven! And “Judas” - and the fate of Judas!

[Katya_Ivanova]

Nikita Kiryanov wanted to become a pilot, but failed due to health reasons and ended up becoming an on-board mechanic

And what was wrong with his health that he couldn’t be a pilot, but he could easily be an on-board mechanic? And if he had been put at the helm, would he have immediately died of a heart attack? There were probably no pilots in his family! But Kuzminov is from a flying dynasty, so preference is given to him. Even if he is mentally disabled from childhood. Still, his place is at the helm.

[Zhivan]

[quote by defector Maxim Kuzminov of the Mi-8AMTSh helicopter.][/quote]
Do the Kuzminovs have a family???

[vovochkarzhevsky]

What kind of comments do the majority have? It seems that instead of heads there is a receiver for draining slop from the TV screen.
The whole matter is murky, so that just like that, - I haven’t read Pasternak, but I condemn it.
But cutting off unnecessary entities.
Although I flew a little, I flew on the Mi-8. Therefore, I will say this, the commander could not kill the crew physically, the cockpit will not allow this, or rather, it is not the most convenient place for this matter, and neither would the driver and the driver.
It is also impossible to fly secretly, since the co-pilot is in charge of navigation.
Hence the whole version of recruitment is in doubt.
What's left? And what is most likely?
Yes, the fact that the command had such a “good” grasp of the situation that they sent a helicopter to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Where the helicopter was hijacked and the crew was partially killed.
And to force a person in captivity to say what is necessary, there is no problem now, even with drugs.
Now a campaign is being launched to cover up the general’s backsides, for which Ukraine’s version of a deliberate flight is simply salvation.

[Al manah]

For some reason I can’t Google the official message from our Ministry of Defense about hijacking. Can someone share a link?

I just found this:

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the information that a Russian pilot hijacked a helicopter to Ukraine. He forwarded the question to the Ministry of Defense.

“This is still more the prerogative of the Ministry of Defense. Because without knowing the details, it would be wrong to comment on anything,” Mr. Peskov said during a press call when asked how this incident can be explained and whether there are any risks of its repetition.

and here it is:

⚡️ Information disseminated by a number of Internet resources and telegram channels about allegedly being in the missing crew in August of this year of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter from a citizen of Tajikistan is absolutely untrue.
The aviation crews of the Aerospace Forces include only military personnel - citizens of the Russian Federation.

[Metallurg_2]

Kuzminov - caught and executed with a sledgehammer on camera.

[Sergei N 58912062]

Everlasting memory!
_________________

[The Burglar]

Where is the announcement of a reward for the liquidation of the traitor Kuzminov? Maybe one of the Nazis will lead.

[mitlantecutli_zen]

Que los servicios de inteligencia rusos ubiquen al traidor, lo cacen y le den su merecido. Eso desestimulará a cualquier otro hijo de puta.

[Alexey Koshkarov]

How many of these defectors do we have in the State Duma and in ministries?

[FoBoss_VM]

Well, I think the traitor will now not be able to sleep peacefully anywhere, every second he will walk and look around, expecting either a knife in the side, or a bullet in the back of the head, or an ice pick in the skull. This is for life...

[Repellent]

Quote from: FoBoss_VM

Well, I think the traitor will now not be able to sleep peacefully anywhere, every second he will walk and look around, expecting either a knife in the side, or a bullet in the back of the head, or an ice pick in the skull. This is for life...

Shiloh, your style of writing has not changed in any way from “at all.”

More carefully, more carefully...

[Petr_Koldunov]

Kuzminov, you stinking nit, you will burn in hell, you bastard!

[buslaif]

After Belenko flew to Japan in 1975 on a MIG-25 plane, a rumor was spread that he had been killed. It turns out not. He lived to this day. And with those who taught him to fly, taught him the history of the CPSU and philosophy, his commanders acted differently. Everyone was punished depending on the degree of responsibility. Most likely, they will soon forget about this scoundrel.

[Potashnik]

I agree that this story is kind of murky. A helicopter was hijacked (lost). People died. Another oddity was that the dead were not presented for a reward (posthumously). Most likely we won’t know the truth for a very long time.