Maksim Kuzminov, who in 2023 fled Russia, chopper Mi-8 switched to Ukraine side and then, thanks to the aid of Ukrainian military intelligence, left for Spain on 13 February 2024 was shot. Sergei Naryszkin, manager of SWR after Ukrainian confirmation of this message stated that he was a “criminal traitor” and “moral corpse” due to the fact that he fled the country. On the another hand, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Pieskov assured that there was no cognition that the Spanish authorities had informed Moscow of what had happened. Not to mention that in October **Russian public tv reported that an order had already been issued to shut down the pilot**.
