The Russian government sent assassins to kill the defector pilot in Spain, according to Spanish intelligence

The Russian government sent assassins who murdered Russian soldier Maksim Kuzminov in Spain last week, who defected with his helicopter to Ukraine last year, the Madrid newspaper El País published this Thursday, citing sources from the Spanish intelligence services.

“The Spanish intelligence services have no doubt that the long hand of the Kremlin is behind an unprecedented crime in Spain: the murder in Alicante of Maksim Kuzminovwrote the newspaper.

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The only question is whether the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Federal Security Service (FSB) or Military Intelligence Service (GRU)intelligence sources told the newspaper, which still stated that it will be “very difficult” to obtain incriminating evidence.

El País also cites “diplomatic sources” who describe the matter as “very serious” and according to which Spain will give a “strong response” if the involvement of Russian authorities is confirmed.

The death of Kuzminovconfirmed by Ukrainian military intelligence (direction) and celebrated by the Russian government, remains shrouded in mystery, as Spanish authorities have not yet confirmed that a body riddled with bullets on February 13 on the Spanish coast was his.

Several Spanish media outlets reported on Monday that the body, which carried a false identity, was that of Kuzminov.

A spokeswoman for the Civil Guard, the armed body leading the investigation, told AFP this Thursday that she had no new information about the case, while the Ministry of the Interior declined to comment.

The Ministry of Defense, to which the Spanish intelligence services report, limited itself to telling the AFP that “We must let the Civil Guard do its job.” and that the investigation progresses”, the official position of the Spanish government.

Spanish intelligence services believe that the crimewhich took place in an area with a large concentration of Russians and which Spanish authorities initially described as a settling of scores, It was committed by murderers, which would have already left Spain.

After shooting him half a dozen times, the killers ran him over with their own car and fled, according to El País.

The charred vehicle was later found in a neighboring town.

Critic of the war in Ukraine, Kuzminov defected last August aboard a Russian army helicopter and landed in territory under Ukrainian control.

Two companions accompanying him, who were unaware of the plans, were killed by Ukrainian forces when they tried to escape.

“This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse from the moment he planned his despicable and terrible crime”, congratulated the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, on Tuesday, quoted by the official TASS agency , without confirming or confirming. denying Russian involvement in the death.

Source: Elcomercio

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