Taras Ostapchuk is Ukrainian, he is 55 years old and has tried sink your boss’s yacht, the Russian tycoon Alexander Mijiv, in Mallorca. laSexta was able to talk to him before he got on a plane back to Ukraine to fight against the invasion.
As he explains, his boss makes weapons and images of the bombing on a building in Kiev similar to his were the trigger for what he did: “I live in a tall tower just like it but in another district of Kiev,” says Taras, who had been working as chief engineer on the Mijiv yacht for 10 years. “Too many dead, too many people without their homes“, the Mint.
the sailor claims he did not mean to cause any personal harmonly material damage to the luxurious yacht of almost 48 meters in length: “I opened the valves and I filled the boat with water, but I warned the crew“, He maintains. At that moment, three frightened crewmates called the Police and were bailing out water.
Taras apologized to them and immediately after made the decision to go to Ukraine: “I support my country, If I have to pick up a gun, I’ll pick up a gun and shoot“, he asserts.
Source: Lasexta
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