“Unprecedented crime’: Russian contract killing in the Mediterranean? Secret service information leaks out. Russian helicopter pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who defected to the Ukrainian troops with his plane last August, was found dead in an underground car park near Alicante.
State television in Moscow reported in the fall that the Russian secret service had received the order to kill the “traitor to the fatherland” The Spanish authorities have not yet officially confirmed the identity of the dead man. Kiev has verified the man's death.