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A man shot dead in Spain may be a Russian army defector

A man who was shot dead in the region of Alicante, in Spain, is believed to be Maksim Kuzminov, a Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year.
Ukrainian military MI-8 helicopters fly at a low altitude in the Kharkiv region on April 2, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Maksim Kuzminov, a Russian army defector who is suspected of being the person found dead in Spain, flew such military helicopters.

SEVILLE, Spain — A man who was shot dead in the region of Alicante last week, in Spain, is believed to be a Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 13, a neighbor in the seaside resort town of Villajoyosa called emergency services. A man had been run over by a white car on the ramp of the community garage of the

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