A Ukrainian man who beforehand labored as a senior official in an anti-organized crime company was discovered useless late final month within the pool at his house complicated within the southern Spanish resort city of Villajoyosa. Ukrainian and Spanish media say Ihor Hrushevskyi’s physique was discovered late final month on the similar house complicated the place a Russian army helicopter pilot-turned-defector was gunned down in February of 2024.
Many residents of the resort, which is standard with Russian and Ukrainian expats, informed El Español they weren’t even conscious of the demise till reporters got here asking questions. The paper mentioned its efforts to dig up private info on Hrushevskyi have been difficult, which it put right down to the character of his former employment in Ukraine.
“The confidentiality inherent in one of the Ukrainian government’s elite units turns Ihor into a ghost, with no trace in official documents or public information,” El Español mentioned.
There was no rapid remark from Ukrainian authorities on the demise, although the overseas ministry was quoted by nationwide public broadcaster Suspilne as saying the Ukrainian consulate in Spain was dealing with the repatriation of Hrushevskyi’s physique.
An aerial view exhibits the seafront in Villajoyosa, in Spain’s southeast Alicante province.
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His physique was found a few 12 months and a half after police discovered the bullet-riddled stays of former Russian army helicopter pilot Maksim Kuzminov within the parking storage of the identical house complicated in Villajoysa — a city on the Mediterranean coast whose title means “joyful village.”
Kuzminov, who was killed on the age of 28, first made headlines in his house area when he defected from Russia, flying his Mi-8 helicopter under radar in August 2023 throughout the border into Ukraine.
He handed over the helicopter, delicate army tools and prime secret Russian intelligence to Ukrainian authorities earlier than showing on Ukrainian tv and calling the conflict launched by President Vladimir Putin “a genocide of Ukrainian people.”
Russian army helicopter pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who defected to Ukraine, seems in a video launched by Ukraine’s Protection Intelligence company in September 2023.
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Naryshkin didn’t verify or deny Russian involvement within the former pilot’s homicide, however months earlier, Russian state TV mentioned the GRU intelligence company had “been given the order” to remove Kuzminov.
CBS’ 60 Minutes reported final 12 months that the Ukrainian authorities gave Kuzminov about $500,000 and a brand new Ukrainian identification, and officers warned him to not depart the nation because of the risk of attainable retaliation by Russia. However he determined to danger a life within the sunshine of Villajoyosa regardless.
