Russian pilot betrays colleagues who attacked Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv

A Russian pilot believed that Russia’s missile attack on the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv on Monday was a mistake, so he decided to pass on information about his comrades from the Russian 22nd Heavy Bomber Division to the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service (HUR), a source inside the Ukrainian intelligence service told the Kyiv Post on Thursday evening.

According to HUR, the defector stated that his division was constantly shelling Ukrainian cities with X-101 missiles.

The pilot told HUR’s chatbot that he and some of his colleagues – from military unit 06987 based at Engels airfield in Russia’s Saratov region – were shocked by the attack on Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, which houses many cancer patients and others who are being treated for injuries sustained in previous Russian attacks. They could not understand why they were forced to attack Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure.

The pilot provided Ukraine with documents related to the activities of his military unit, as well as private photographs of the command staff of the 22nd Heavy Bomber Division, a Kyiv Post source claimed.

According to the source, an initial analysis of the preserved materials already shows their high value.

The information provided includes documents from the personnel files of high-ranking officers, as well as the personal data of Russian servicemen and their families. The most valuable are stamped documents of the 22nd Heavy Bomber Division, the source said.

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