Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov, killed in Spain, “used a protection plan” from Ukraine.
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Advisor to the head of the Presidential Office, Mikhail Podolyak, told El Mundo and added that Spain should investigate this murder. He directly said that Russia was behind this.
The El Pais newspaper wrote that the Spanish intelligence services have no doubt that the pilot was killed on the orders of the Russian intelligence services, but which ones are not yet known. Madrid is preparing a response as this is the first such case on Spanish soil.
The death of Kuzminov, who in August 2023 stole a Mi-8 AMTSH helicopter for the police, became known on February 19. The GUR confirmed his murder.
According to Spanish media, Kuzminov was killed with five shots in a garage in the city of La Vila Joyosa (Alicante province). The two suspects fled. The pilot had a Ukrainian passport issued in the name of 33-year-old Igor Shevchenko (the Russian was 28 years old).
The Spanish publication EL ESPAÑOL, in the course of its own investigation, came to the conclusion that Kuzminov was killed by a “professional group”, which, according to the Spanish publication, had been following his daily routine for a long time in Alicante and had CCTV footage.
The Spanish investigation considers the murder as a “settling of scores” by the initiative group, since there is particular cruelty in the murder – the pilot received half a dozen ball wounds, and later the car in which the unknown attackers disappeared ran over his body.
Let us recall that the defector pilot Kuzminov lived in Spain using a passport named 33-year-old Igor Shevchenko. The Russian pilot, shot dead in an underground parking lot in the municipality of Villajoyosa, entered Spain under the name of 33-year-old Donetsk resident Shevchenko. He had a Ukrainian passport, issued on September 22, 2023.
Source: Racurs
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