They gave the Russian Federation Tu-95 and Tu-160 for 275 million: investigators named the politicians who allowed it
At the same time, bombers found themselves in Russia in violation of the Constitution, although an agreement was signed at the level of prime ministers of both countries. On losses of $ 2. 5 billion But the reasons for the loss of aircraft were told by the investigators of the "Scheme" of the Agency "Radio Liberty".
Journalists said that the investigation used aircraft numbers from the agreement they found in the archives, information on international flights and data of Ukrainian intelligence on the numbers of boards of the Russian Federation launching missiles in Ukraine. Thus, they found that Tu-95MC and Tu-160 used for shelling, the same as Ukrainians voluntarily gave in the 90s and 2000s. The reason for the transfer to transfer is the cancellation of $ 275 million.
Ukraine's debt for Russian gas, is explained in the investigation. The then President Leonid Kuchma said "schemes" that there was nothing doubtful in the decision, since the Russian Federation did not behave as an aggressor at the time and was in contact with all Western countries. However, as a result, Ukraine suffered losses of $ 2. 5 billion, since the cost of the aircraft transmitted, as well as missiles, the engines reduced dozens of times, journalists reported.
The investigation states that the agreement on the transfer of strategic bombers was signed by the then Prime Minister Valery Pustovoitenko and then Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The agreement should be approved by the Verkhovna Rada in accordance with the Constitution. However, the planes flew to the Russian Federation, and the Council did not approve it.
"Schemes" named the names of the topics of the time involved in the loss of Ukrainian TU-95MC and Tu-160: journalists listed the planes that Ukraine lost and named the attacks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in which they were featured after February 22, 2022: the Provisional Investigation Commission of the Verkhovna Rada. Investigation in the period from 2004 to 2017 ", investigators said.
The commission's report states that the amount of $ 275 million, which was estimated by planes, missiles, other equipment, devoted to the Russian Federation in exchange for writing off the board, is ten times lower than it should be. "To the state of Ukraine, more than $ 2. 5 billion has been deposited. At the prices at the date of conclusion of the relevant agreement," the people's deputies wrote in the report.
It should be noted that on November 17, 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was used to strike in Ukraine TU-160 and TU-95 bombers, reported the Air Command of the Armed Forces. During the shelling, the Russians launched 120 missiles of different types that attacked energy infrastructure, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. We remind that on November 21 the Russian Federation hit the Dnieper with a ballistic missile.