The head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, on Tuesday became the first senior official in Moscow to comment on the death of a Russian pilot who fled in his Mi-8 Terminator helicopter to Ukraine, saying the serviceman was a “corpse”. morality,” Reuters reported.

On Monday evening, the Spanish media reported that the lifeless body of a Ukrainian citizen with multiple bullet wounds was discovered by a local resident near the garage of a house in the city of La Villajoyosa in Alicante. Soon after, a burnt-out car was found in the nearby town of El Campello, which could have been used by the alleged killer.

The investigation is ongoing and Spanish law enforcement authorities have yet to publicly confirm the identity of the man found dead. However, the Air Force confirmed the death of Maksym Kuzminov in the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (HUR), but did not provide details.

“He decided to move to Spain and not be here. As far as we know, he was found shot dead,” reports “Ukrainian Pravda” with reference to a source in the GRU – Kyiv.

Responding to a question about this topic on Tuesday, Serhii Naryshkin said that “in Russia, it is customary to either speak well of the dead or not speak at all.”

But then he added about Kuzminov that “this traitor and murderer became a moral corpse at the very moment when he was planning his dirty and terrible crime.”

What is known about the escape of the Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov

On August 23 of last year, the Ukrainian mass media reported that a Russian pilot recently handed over his Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine after a long “special operation” by the GRU.

Along with the pilot, there were two crew members in the helicopter who were unaware of his plan. “Ukrainian Pravda” noted at the time that two people died as a result of the “special operation”, assuming that they tried to resist.

The Ukrainian publication also noted that the pilot remained in the country, deserted after his family was transported here across the border with the help of Ukrainian special services.

In early September, the GRU reported that the defecting Russian pilot was named Maxim Kuzminov, and published an interview with him in which the serviceman explained how he planned to defect.

“I contacted the Ukrainian special services, explained my situation, after which I was offered the following opportunity: “Come, we guarantee your safety, we guarantee you new documents, we guarantee you financial compensation.” Among other things, the Russian pilot claimed that he later agreed on other details with the Ukrainian special services, including the flight path.

GRU spokesman Andriy Yusov later said the Russian pilot had received a half-million-dollar reward that Ukraine had promised since the first weeks of the invasion for any helicopter pilot who defected with his plane.

In the case of fighter pilots, the reward is one million dollars.

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