According to Russia, Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine was a “moral corpse”. The Russian foreign secret service SWR has commented on the helicopter pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who was found shot dead in Spain.
Kiev reportedly paid 460,000 euros for his defection The pilot flew from Russia to Ukraine in August last year with a fully equipped Mi-8 army helicopter. After landing at a Ukrainian military airfield, the other two crew members were shot while trying to escape.