The wave of high treason cases that swept Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine has reached the largest scientific center of the Russian defense industry. The Moscow Times writes about it.

According to the publication, on Tuesday, May 16, employees of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, which specializes in the creation of hypersonic aircraft, published an open letter in which they announced the arrest on suspicion of treason Valery Zvegintsev, Doctor of Technical Sciences and chief researcher who founded the.

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Thus, three scientists of the Novosibirsk Institute have already been arrested by the security forces under an article, the maximum punishment for which this year became life imprisonment - high treason..

As it turned out, Zvyagintsev has been under house arrest since April 7..

Its immediate supervisor, director of ITAM Alexander Shiplyuk, was placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in August last year, a few days after the arrest of chief researcher Anatoly Maslov. Both were charged under the same article - 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "

According to Academ. info, Maslova, in particular, was suspected of transferring data related to hypersonic technologies to China.

Shiplyuk and Maslov have been engaged in hypersonic missiles for more than 10 years. They presented the experimental design of such weapons back in 2012 at a scientific seminar in France.. Four years later, a work jointly authored by two scientists appeared on aerodynamic research at hypersonic speeds..

Shiplyuk has also been involved in the protective coating of hypersonic missiles in recent years..

In total, in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is known for its strong potential in the field of physics and mathematics, 16 people were prosecuted, including the ex-head, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Aseev. One of the scientists, 54-year-old Dmitry Kolker, head of the laboratory of quantum optical technologies at Novosibirsk State University, died in a Moscow pre-trial detention center shortly after being arrested by the FSB..

Dictator Vladimir Putin announced the creation of hypersonic weapons in Russia on March 1, 2018.

In the course of his message to the Federal Assembly, he showed an animated presentation where the “enemies” were hit by the Zirkon anti-ship missile and the Avangard planning block. The latter, as Putin claimed, develops speeds above Mach 20 and melts in flight, “like a popsicle.”.

Recall that on the night of May 16, Kyiv experienced an exceptionally dense missile attack - the enemy launched the maximum number of missiles in the shortest period of time.. However, all these missiles were shot down by the Ukrainian air defense forces, including 6 Kinzhal missiles, about which Russia spread the legend about their invulnerability.