Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine identified as Maxim Kuzmínov. The Russian spy chief affirms that the pilot was “a moral corpse” since his defection.
Kuzminov's escape and landing with a Mi-8 fighter at a military base in the Kharkiv region, in eastern Ukraine and on the border with Russia, was used for propaganda purposes by the Kiev authorities. The head of Russia's Foreign Espionage Service, Sergei Narishkin, assured this Tuesday that the deceased was "a criminal traitor"