HA Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine has died, according to information from Kiev. „We can confirm this fact,” Ukrainian military intelligence spokesman Andrey Yusov told public television on Monday. He did not provide any other information about the circumstances of his death.
The media had previously reported the death of Maxim Kuzminov. Accordingly, his body was found in Spain. “He brought his ex-lover and was found shot to death,” the portal wrote. Ukrainskaya Pravda Quoting its own intelligence sources.
The Spanish authorities have not yet confirmed the identity of the dead man. Documents found on the man killed in La Cala near Alicante identified him as a 33-year-old Ukrainian, police said on Tuesday.
In the first statement of the government in Madrid regarding the case, government spokeswoman Maria Pilar Alegría said on Tuesday, in response to journalists’ questions: “In this case, the investigations are ongoing, so we cannot provide any information at this stage.” Police unit) The Civil Guard must provide its support until the work is finished and we await the results of the investigation.
In Moscow, a representative of the Secret Service reacted happily to the death. “This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse at the time he was planning his dirty and horrific crime,” Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s SWR foreign intelligence service, said on Tuesday, according to the state TASS news agency.
Kuzminov traveled from Russia to Ukraine in August last year on board a fully equipped Mi-8 military helicopter. After landing at a Ukrainian military airport, two other crew members were shot while trying to escape, according to Ukrainian sources.
The Russian received the equivalent of more than 460,000 euros from Kiev for the crime. Moscow state television reported in the fall that Russian intelligence had received an order to kill the man deemed a traitor.
Ukraine confronted the Russian invasion nearly two years ago. In April 2022, Kiev set rewards for operational Russian military equipment delivered to Ukraine. The Ukrainian state promised Russian dissidents a maximum reward equivalent to more than 920,000 euros in exchange for obtaining a fighter plane.
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