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>>the morale is so high they blew up their own plane when pilot tried to flee to Russian Federation
>>likely by the self-destruction IED
>kek, qrd?
well it's the one plane they "accidentally" shot down
consider, that ukrainian air defence is compltely inept
they land civilian planes and land on civilian buildings constantly, so it's unlikely they would hit their own plane intentionally
but hitting it randomly — yes, that's the version of events they would like to go to cover up, thinking it's a plausible one

then consider how the Medici says, that mercs are unreliable
they will defect to whomever pays more
and consider that ukraine is the core of the USSR culture, so they would do what the soviet pilot does — defects

a captured tank costs 6.5times(rounded down) more than a destroyed one
and a destroyed F-16 plane awards 15kk RUR (188.5k$)

so basically, after defecting, this person, pursuing the official state agenda of enrichment as their core idea and otherwise riding in the track of the soviet defector pilots culture, would get around 1.2 mil$ (1.5 mil for the plane, and some more for the intact weapon load) + some cushy job on Hainan, driving a boat as a tour guide for rich Russian speaking tourists, and a pineapple processing factory job on the nearest northern continental shore from Hainan, so that he would have no fingerprints for a legitimate reason

porks would tell you, that's not enough for someone to betray ukraine, but, as we defined earlier, that's not betraying ukraine, that's exactly what the ukrainians perceives as a virtue to do
maximal personal enrichment trough betrayal of everything and everyone
they would only argue that, because they have no chance to pull the same trick themselves personally
especially now, that they know there's an IED under the pilot's seat

they can still try to find a way to crash the plane somewhere on the Russian controlled territory in the trees and catapult, getting their much smaller benefit package