MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. The Russian Interior Ministry has put the commander of Ukraine’s Air Force, Nikolay Oleshchuk, on a wanted list. He has been charged in absentia of a terrorist act after a drone attack on Russian territory.

The Interior Ministry’s data base does not mention a specific article of the Criminal Code.

Russia’s Investigative Committee in early October brought charges in absentia against Kirill Budanov, the chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Nikolay Oleshchuk, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, and several other Ukrainian military commanders for crimes under Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code (terrorist act).

The investigators collected sufficient evidence of the involvement of Ukraine's top military officials in more than 100 air strikes with fixed wing drones on the territories of Moscow and Moscow Region, Crimea and Sevastopol, Rostov, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions and a number of other regions of Russia from April 2022 to September 2023. Earlier, Budanov had already been declared wanted in Russia under a criminal article.