The lawyer assured that the conclusion of contracts for the supply of engines, which then ended up in Russian helicopters, was allegedly approved by the "state of Ukraine."

The president of Motor Sich, Vyacheslav Boguslayev, imprisoned in the courtroom, does have Russian citizenship. This was confirmed by his lawyer Yaroslav Volynets, informs Ukrainian Pravda.

According to the journalist, the lawyer confirmed that Boguslayev had a Russian passport but noted that he had not discussed this topic with him.

According to the human rights activist, the conversations of the first episode, published by the SSU, were about contracts concluded earlier.

“As my client explained, there were conversations on the first episode, but there were no deliveries. The prosecutors confirmed that the deliveries had not occurred in the second episode. "Motor Sich" has been supplying to Russia for many, many years. But this case is during the war," Volynets said.

The lawyer assured that the conclusion of contracts for the supply of engines, which ended up in Russian helicopters, was allegedly approved by "the state of Ukraine represented by state bodies."

In his opinion, the investigators allegedly did not provide evidence that after the delivery of the goods through a “friendly country for us,” the engines were redirected to Russia.

Case of Boguslayev

Back in 2019, Bihus.Info journalists reported that Motor Sich was selling helicopter engines to Russians. This was done despite the official ban on cooperation with the aggressor state.

On October 22, 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine detained Boguslayev and the head of Motor Sich's Foreign Economic Activity Department.

On October 24, the SBU published audio recordings of Vyacheslav Boguslayev's telephone conversations, confirming his cooperation with the Russian Federation.

He was not against the fact that Russia bombed a part of Motor Sich and negotiated the supply of engines to Russia.

Investigative journalists from Schemes have published evidence that Vyacheslav Boguslaev has Russian citizenship.

Boguslaev himself, at the trial, called himself the general designer, whose task is only to create and modernize helicopters. He only shrugged his shoulders to a direct question about cooperation with the aggressor country.

On October 24, 83-year-old Vyacheslav Boguslaev was taken into custody in the courtroom.