Russian Mi-8 pilot Maxim Kuzminov was shot with a Makarov pistol and then run over several times by a car.
Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who flew a Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine as part of the Sinitsa special operation, was shot with a Makarov pistol and then run over several times by a car, reports The New York Times.
According to the publication of Kuzminov’s killers, there were two. At the crime scene they left shell casings ranging from 9mm cartridges to Makarov pistols. These cartridges, according to the NYT, are important evidence, as such cartridges are commonly used in countries of the former communist bloc.
The car in which the killers ran over Kuzminov’s body several times was found several kilometers from the scene of the incident. The car was burned using special means.
It took investigators a week to determine the make and model of the car and determine that it had been stolen two days before the killing in the city of Murcia, which is about an hour’s drive from the crime scene.
“The message is clear. I will find you, I will kill you, I will run over you and humiliate you,” a senior Spanish police official overseeing the murder investigation told the NYT.
In addition, as the NYT found out, the Russian left Ukraine in October 2023. In Spain, he settled in the city of La Villajoyosa on the Mediterranean coast. The killers, according to the NYT, discovered Kuzminov after he invited his ex-girlfriend to his place in Spain.
“It was a serious mistake,” said a Ukrainian official who also spoke to the NYT.
We remind you that the body of a Russian pilot who flew a helicopter over Ukraine was found in Spain.
In August 2023, Maxim Kuzminov flew to Ukraine in a Mi-8 Mi-8AMTSh helicopter and surrendered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Later, the Main Intelligence Directorate spoke about an operation named Sinitsa.
Source: korrespondent
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