“I work on a pig farm!”
When The Insider began contacting the gunmen using their billing phone numbers, they all admitted that these phone numbers belonged to them, but categorically denied that they worked in the Main Computing Center and had anything to do with the bombing. of Ukraine.
For example, one of them admitted that his name was Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyin, but he claimed to be “self-employed” and to work as a plumber: “I have nothing to do with calculations, except those needed for the work plumbers. ” Lieutenant Artem Vedenov, answering the number we found in the invoice, did not deny that he was Artem Vedenov, but stated that he worked in a pig farm and did not have any valuable data: “I don’t mind talking to you, but what can I Do you want to tell me how to cut pork? Or how to pluck chickens? Captain Yuri Nikonov said that he is a bus driver and that the information about his work in the computer center is “kind of nonsense.” Major Ivan Popov has said he was just learning to program in Python, he didn’t know any computer centers and it was useless to ask him about guided missiles: “It’s like I’m asking you about ballet now, do you understand?” Lieutenant Ekaterina Chugunova replied: “I have a flower shop . You are definitely wrong. “
When The Insider showed some of the gunners a photo of them standing in military uniform with a computer center sign, it left them completely confused. So, for example, Vladimir Vorobyov also at first stated that he had nothing to do with the Main Computer Center, and when they showed him a photo in uniform, he responded with a mysterious phrase: “I see him for the first time. once in my life. Especially in the form of … “
One of the engineers agreed to share with us, on condition of anonymity, some contextual information and several photographs of the MCC’s route calculation block in front of the Ministry of Defense building in Moscow.
