A Ukrainian man reportedly tried to sink his Russian employer’s yacht last week as revenge for Russia invading Ukraine, an effort to which he said his employer directly contributed.
According to reports, a man identified as “D. Taras O” tried to sink the $7.8 “Lady Anastasia,” owned by a Russian billionaire named Alexander Mijeev who made his billion-dollar fortune running a Russian military weapons company. The employee reportedly flooded the engine room by opening a valve.
The man then shut down the electricity and closed the fuel valves, before asking three Ukrainian crew members to leave the ship. The other crew members, who later reported him to authorities, called him crazy and asked him to close the valve that was causing the leak, according to El País. The yacht was left with a destroyed engine room.
The 55-year-old employee, who had worked for a decade as the yacht’s chief engineer, told a judge that he has no regrets and "would do it again."
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"My boss is a criminal who sells weapons that kill the Ukrainian people," he said.
"I watched the news about the war,” he added. “There was a video of a helicopter attack on a building in Kyiv. The armaments used are produced by the yacht owner's company. They were attacking innocents.”