Return to Russia of seven pilots who escaped from captivity of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan

Second pilot Gazinur Garifzyanovich Khairullin (left in the foreground), lead engineer Viktor Petrovich Ryazanov (right in the foreground), commander of the crew of Russian pilots Vladimir Ivanovich Sharpatov (center in the third background), who escaped from Taliban captivity in Afghanistan during a flight on a special plane of the Russian Ministry of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of the Russian Federation) to Moscow. After a year of captivity by the Taliban movement in Kandahar, seven Russian pilots escaped on an IL-76TD plane of the Kazan company Aerostan to the United Arab Emirates. The exact location of the photo has not been determined. Oleg Buldakov/TASS