Two 16-year-old Russians have been arrested for setting fire to a military helicopter at the Omsk heliport, in the southwestern part of Siberia. The news was reported by Ukrainian media, which also Photo of two young men arrested by the army releasedwith a pixelated face.
According to the Telegram channel Bassthe two would have done raid during the night of September 21st on the heliport, throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Mi-8 parked on the runway and then fled. Roma and Anton, the names of the two sixteen year olds, would have been lured on Telegram by a user who promised them a reward of 20,000 dollars at the end of the arson operation.
The video of the arrest
Videos of the arrest and the interrogation immediately after the arrest were also released on Telegram. The two were in a house when the army broke in, breaking the door off the wall.
The first video ends with the two boys stuck on the ground, while the second video shows part of the interrogation. “Do you understand why we are here?” one of the soldiers asks the boys kneeling with their hands behind their heads. “They gave me the task and I set them on fire,” confesses one of the sixteen-year-olds who then says he was contacted on Telegram, and that deleted the conversation with this stranger.
Helicopter set on fire at Noyabrsk airport
This is not the first time that an episode of this kind has occurred in Russia. On September 11, two more teenagers were arrested, accused of setting fire to another helicopter parked at the Noyabrsk airport.. Timur, 13, and Sasha, 14, had sneaked into the military area through a hole in the fence. They too They had received an offer on Telegram offering them a reward of 5 million rubles (approximately $53,000) in exchange for the sabotage action..
Timur and Sasha first doused the Mi-8 with flammable liquid and then they allegedly tried to set him on fire by throwing a lit cigarette at him. The explosion seriously injured the boys who, after escaping through the same gap they had entered, were forced to call an ambulance.. When questioned by the police, they confessed to the action, saying that a few days earlier they had also burned a mobile phone repeater, in exchange for 30 thousand rubles.
According to GUR, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency, the cost of one Mi-8 is around 15 million dollars.
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