Maksim Kuzminov, the 28-year-old Russian pilot of the Mi-8 helicopter who surrendered to Ukraine after landing in a Ukrainian airfield on Aug. 23, called on other Russian pilots to follow his example.
Maksim Kuzminov, the 28-year-old Russian pilot of the Mi-8 helicopter who surrendered to Ukraine after landing in a Ukrainian airfield on Aug. 23, called on other Russian pilots to follow his example.
It’s war. Plus, the pilot was thinking about his family as well. His family was either on their way out of Russia or already in Ukraine so it was fairly important to deliver a helicopter.
I am trying to think about what I would do in that situation. Maybe I could risk bringing a defection up in conversation and try to find out if the other person wanted to join or not. I suppose there would be a few things like that I could do, but I dunno. I wasn’t there.