Civil Guard investigates the identity of a man shot dead in Alicante whom Ukraine points out as a Russian deserter

The Civil Guard has opened an investigation to try to clarify the identity of a man found dead in Villajoyosa (Alicante) last week and that Ukrainian media say he is a Russian pilot who deserted from the war. Sources from the Civil Guard consulted by Europa Press have indicated that on Tuesday of last week a person was found dead with several gunshot wounds in Villajoyosa (Alicante). The Civil Guard points out that in the course of the investigation that is being carried out it has learned that the identity that appeared of this person “could be false and could be another individual”, which is why it has opened additional proceedings to clarify this end. Other sources from the Armed Institute had reported last week of the discovery of the body of a 33-year-old man located inside a community garage, after the 112 emergency service received a notice at 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday, February 13. Municipal sources added to Europa Press that several bullet casings were found next to the lifeless body of this man, located inside the garage of a residential area of ​​tourist apartments in the north of Villajoyosa. UKRAINIAN SPOKESMAN A member of the Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Andrei Yusov, has confirmed both to the UNIAN agency and to the newspaper ‘Kiev Post’ that the Russian pilot Maksim Kuzminov has been found dead in Spain, although he did not want to go into detail about the exact circumstances of the death. According to both media, Kuzminov voluntarily defected to Ukraine within the framework of an operation organized by the Ukrainian Intelligence services, taking with him a Mi-8 helicopter, as well as Intelligence information. The pilot landed the device in the Kharkov region, where the Ukrainian Intelligence services were waiting for him. Then, Kuzminov himself explained that he had defected because he was against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “I regret what is happening, the murders, the tears, the blood,” he said in a documentary released by the Intelligence services, ensuring that in Ukraine there were “neither fascists nor Nazis” as Moscow claimed. “I don’t want to be complicit in Russian crimes,” he said.