Russian Major General Kanamat Botashev died in Ukraine/Channel 24 Collage
The other day, in the sky over the Luhansk region, Ukrainian defenders shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft. Retired Major General of the Russian Air Force Kanamat Botashev was on his pine forest.
Information about this was confirmed to journalists by several ex-subordinates of Botashev, who kept in touch with him after the end of the service.
One of Botashev's former colleagues confirmed that in Ukraine, the retired general carried out the task precisely on the Su-25. Note that Botashev is the tallest pilot whose death became known. Before retiring, he was the commander of an aviation regiment.
The participation of such a high-ranking officer in air battles can mean that:
- Moscow sets extremely difficult tasks for military pilots,
- there is a shortage of highly qualified specialists.
- Botashev commanded a regiment of the guards air base in Voronezh. His military career was cut short in June 2012 when he was blamed for the crash of a Su-27 fighter near Petrozavodsk.
- According to media reports, the general asked his friend, the colonel, to ride him on the Su-27, in which he had a permit to fly. In flight, Botashev decided to perform the highest aerobatics, but lost control. The front-line fighter fell into a tailspin and crashed, the pilots ejected.
- Subsequently, it turned out that Botashev had already considered a similar official violation – in 2011, without a permit, he flew the Su-34 aircraft. As a result, Botashev was found guilty of the plane crash and sentenced to four years and a fine of 5 million rubles.
- Andrei Sukhovetsky,
- Vladimir Frolov.
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Botashev was a sniper pilot. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, training such a pilot takes 10-12 years and costs about $8 million. On Russian military forums, one can come across the assertion that the status of a sniper pilot is not so much an indicator of skill as a tribute to merit, and more often it is given not to those who shoot accurately, but to those who have big stars on shoulder straps.
Interesting! From open sources, BBC journalists learned about the death in Ukraine of at least 31 Russian military pilots. These are significant losses for the air force, although the real figures may be higher.
What is known about Kanamata Botasheva
He was born back in 1959 in Karachay-Cherkessia, graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation Institute, and received the qualification of a “fighter-bomber”. In the end, he grew from a lieutenant to a general.
Botashev crashed the plane
Russian generals die in Ukraine
From open sources it became known about the death in Ukraine, at least two active generals of the Russian army. In Russia, the death of major generals was confirmed:
The Ukrainian authorities reported the death of seven more Russian generals, but at least two of them – Magomed Tushaev and Andrey Mordvichev – turned out to be alive, periodically appear on video recordings and continue to participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
