[HIGHLIGHTS] The Russian spy chief assures that the defecting pilot killed in Spain was a "traitor"

The Russian spy chief assures that the defecting pilot killed in Spain was a "traitor". The head of the Russian Foreign Espionage Service, Sergei Narishkin, assured today that Maxim Kuzminov, the Russian pilot who defected in a helicopter to Ukraine and was murdered in Spain.

"This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse the moment he planned his dirty and terrible crime," he said. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, assured during his daily telephone press conference that he is not aware that the Spanish authorities informed Moscow about what happened.