Maksim Kuzminov, who fled Russia in 2023, crossed to Ukraine with an Mi-8 chopper and then, with the aid of Ukrainian military intelligence, went to Spain, was shot dead on February 13, 2024. Sergei Naryshkin, manager of the SWR after Ukraine confirmed this news, declared that he was a “criminal traitor” and a “moral corpse” due to the fact that he had fled the country. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said he had no cognition that the Spanish authorities had informed Moscow about what had happened. Not to mention that in October **Russian public tv reported that an order had already been issued to liquidate the pilot**.