The arrest of the truck driver was reported by 'Mediazona'*, which discovered the Ivanovo Regional Court's ruling. 55-year-old Mikhail Ryumin was accused of a 'terrorist act committed by a group of persons', and he was arrested on June 2.
According to the investigation, on June 1, drones were launched from his truck as part of the SBU's Operation 'Web', which attacked the airfield in Ivanovo, where the rarest 'flying radars' A-50 in Russian aviation are based. Besides Ivanovo, the operation took place in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, as well as near Ryazan.
The drones took off from the roofs of frame houses transported by trucks. As reported by the SBU, they were launched and controlled remotely, and the truck drivers were unaware of the hidden drones.
Shortly before his arrest, Ryumin changed jobs and accepted an order to deliver components of frame houses from Chelyabinsk to the Ivanovo region, his colleague told 'Mediazona'. Ryumin was supposed to transport the cargo to the Ivanovo region in a rented truck. The colleague is also confident that Ryumin could not have known that drones were installed under the roofs of the frame houses.
On June 2, the authorities of the Irkutsk region published a notice about the 'possibly involved' 37-year-old native of Ukraine, Artem Timofeev, which was later deleted. Telegram channels close to law enforcement claimed that Timofeev was the owner of the trucks.
On June 5, a search card for Timofeev appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs' wanted database. Two days later, his wife Yulia Timofeeva was declared wanted. As reported by Baza, both spouses were born in Ukraine, and at the end of May, they left Russia for Kazakhstan.
The SBU stated that as a result of Operation 'Web', 41 Russian military aircraft were damaged. OSINT analysts confirmed the destruction of at least 12 aircraft at the 'Belaya' and 'Olenya' airbases through satellite images.
* Recognized in Russia as a 'foreign agent'.