The Kremlin did not receive official information from the Spanish side about the death of Russian defector pilot Maxim Kuzminov. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov mentioned this during a briefing.
“I don’t know if there is a message through diplomatic channels. “We have no information on this issue,” Peskov said.
The other day, the publication “Ukrainian Pravda” with reference to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) reportedIt was stated that a pilot who escaped from Russia may have been killed in Spain after his ex-girlfriend came to see him.
In September 2023, the Main Intelligence Directorate reported that Kuzminov hijacked an Mi-8 on 9 August and flew it from the airport in Kursk to the Kharkov region. In addition to Kuzminov, there were also two crew members on the ship who were killed due to resistance, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
Sergei Naryshkin, later head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) statedThat the asylum seeker Maxim Kuzminov, who died in Spain, became a moral corpse even as he planned to hijack the Russian Mi-8 military helicopter.
Previously in Yekaterinbug said goodbye The navigator of the Mi-8 was smuggled to Ukraine.