
Taras Ostapchuk (left) and Lady Anastasia (right), which belongs to Mijeev (inset right) (Twitter)
A Ukrainian marine engineer was detained after attempting to sink the Lady Anastasia, a 48-meter-long $7 million superyacht owned by Russian oligarch and arms tycoon, Alexander Mijeev. The attempt took place on Saturday at Port Adriano in Mallorca.
The 55-year-old engineer, Taras Ostapchuk, had worked on the yacht for close to a decade and felt compelled to act after seeing a video of a Russian cruise missile partially destroying an apartment block resembling his own in Kyiv. His employer and the yacht’s owner, Mijeev, 61, is the CEO of Rosoboronexport, the weapons export arm of Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec. Ostapchuk believes that the missile was manufactured by Rostec.