If you’ve worked your way into becoming one of the top arms dealers in Russia, it’s probably fair to say you’ve made your share of enemies over the years.
But it’s not always the ones you expect that you have to watch out for.
Two days after Russian forces launch an invasion of Ukraine, the Lady Anastasia, a 450-foot superyacht reportedly owned by Alexander Mikheev, was docked at a marina on the Spanish resort island of Mallorca.
Mikheev is the head of Rosoboronexport, the military export branch of Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate, and it turns out that some of the workers on the vessel just happened to be Ukrainian.
When one of them, 55-year-old Taras Ostapchuk, saw footage of Russian forces bombing his native country, he realized that his boss could have supplied those weapons — and decided to take measures into his own hands.
