The assassination of Prigozhin yesterday pushed out of the news cycle a stunningly successful operation of the Ukrainian intelligence services.
Six months ago Ukrainian intelligence made contact with a Russian military helicopter fighter and started persuading him to defect. The pilot was understandably worried about his family. Ukrainians helped him quietly and unobtrusively to move the family out of Russia.
Finally, yesterday the pilot got into his helicopter and flew to Ukraine. His crew members weren’t happy when they heard that plan, so he had to eliminate them.
This is not the first time that Ukrainian intelligence brings over a valuable target who’s in possession of desirable equipment this way. These are all long-term operations that require a lot of patience, a great psychological insight and an ability to focus on the goal. We don’t find out about most of these operations but yesterday, our chief spy guy Kyrylo Budanov shared the details of this one as a present for today’s Independence Day.
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That’s actually a really smart strategy. Get the family out first and guarantee their safety, then they can more easily defect or if they die at least be at peace that their family is not in danger. I really hope to see more of this.
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They’d already done this with a few people at the coronel level. But this new defector actually brought a helicopter.
The next goal is to get a pilot who can bring an airplane.
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