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☆ The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine was shot 5 times while less than 500 feet away from a police station: WSJ
  + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Maksym Kuzminov was a Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine in August. AdvertisementMaksym Kuzminov, the 28-year-old Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine in August and later moved to Spain, was shot five times while less than 500 feet away from a local police station, The Wall Street Journal reported. A medic found five small-caliber shots, one of which directly hit his heart, revealing the accuracy with which the perpetrator killed Kuzminov, according to the report. Western intelligence officials and a former Russian intelligence officer told The Journal last year that Nikolai Patrushev, a close associate of Putin, orchestrated his death. AdvertisementFollowing reports of Kuzminov's death, Moscow's foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin appeared to support the Russian pilot's fate.
Persons: Maksym Kuzminov, Kuzminov, —, Maksym, Vladimir Putin's, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Nikolai Patrushev, Putin, Alexey Navalny, Navalny, Joe Biden, Sergei Naryshkin, Naryshkin Organizations: Service, Street Journal, Russian, Biden Administration, TASS Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Spain, Villajoyosa, Moscow
☆ The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with an Mi-8 helicopter was shot to death in Spain
  + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Read previewThe Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter in August was found shot to death in Spain last week, according to media reports in Ukraine and Spain. According to the outlet, Russian media reported Kuzminov had been found dead with at least five bullet wounds in an underground parking lot in southern Spain, near Alicante. AdvertisementSpecial Operation 'Titmouse'Kuzminov, a former captain in Russia's 319th separate helicopter regiment, defected to Ukraine in August when he landed a Russian Mi-8 AMTSh on a Ukrainian air base in Kharkiv. Ukrainian military officials said they would not surrender and were "eliminated." Advertisement"What is happening now is simply genocide of the Ukrainian people: both Ukrainian and Russian," he said in an interview released by Ukraine Defense Intelligence.
Persons: —, Maksym Kuzminov, Kuzminov, EFE Organizations: Service, Business, Reuters, Spanish, La Informacion, Police, Guardian, Ukraine Defense Intelligence Locations: Ukraine, Spain, Kyiv, Alicante, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russia's, Russian, Kharkiv, Russia
☆ The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter is now providing key aviation intelligence to Ukraine, defense agency says
  + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a helicopter last month is now helping Ukraine fight Russia. Maksym Kuzminov, the helicopter pilot who switched sides in a daring defection, is now providing the Ukrainian military with key Russian aviation intelligence, according to an interview with Kuzminov released by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Kuzminov first reached out to Ukraine's Defense Intelligence at the end of 2022, jumpstarting a plan for him to flee Russia with his helicopter. After Kuzminov landed in the Kharkiv region, the helicopter was eventually moved to safer territory, Ukraine's defense intelligence said. The aircraft will be used to "replenish" Ukraine's military fleet, the defense intelligence said.
Persons: Maksym, Kuzminov, Maksym Kuzminov, Artem Shevchenko, jumpstarting, AMTSh, Radio Svoboda Organizations: Service, Defense Intelligence, Russian Pilots, YouTube, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, Radio Free Europe, Radio Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Kharkiv, Russia's, Primorsky Region, Ukrainian
☆ Zelenskyy and his spy chief grabbed a photo with what looks like the Mi-8 helicopter a Russian pilot secretly flew to Ukraine in a daring defection
  + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Sarah Gray | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posed with Ukrainian spy chief Kyrylo Budanov in front of a Mi-8 helicopter. The Mi-8 helicopter appears to be the one a Russian pilot flew to Ukraine in a daring defection. The helicopter in question appears to be the one flown by a Russian pilot into Ukraine in a daring defection carried out on August 9, 2023. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: Female spy ring working for Russia busted in UkraineMi-8 helicopter from Ukrainian video of the defection of the Russian pilot. Defense Intelligence of UkraineKuzminov reached out to Ukraine's Defense Intelligence at the end of 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported, and the plan was then put into motion.
Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Kyrylo Budanov, Kyrylo, Maksym, Kuzminov, Ukraine Kuzminov Organizations: Service, Ukraine's Defense, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, of Military Intelligence, . Defense Intelligence, Defense Intelligence, Street Journal, Ukrainian, Verkhovna Rada Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Russia's, Verkhovna, Ukrainian
☆ The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter said he flew 32 feet above the ground to avoid being seen and turned off his transponder, per the WSJ
  + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Sarah Gray | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russian pilot Maksym Kuzminov defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter last month. Kuzminov described how he crossed into Ukraine in a video shared by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence. He flew 32 feet above the ground with his transponder off to avoid being spotted, The Wall Street Journal reported. The defection was first made public in late August, but additional details about the Russian pilot who flew a Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine were released by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence in a video posted on Sunday. Kuzminov communicated with Ukrainian defense officials via the encrypted messaging app Telegram and came up with a plan to fly the stolen Russian helicopter into Ukraine.
Persons: Maksym Kuzminov, Kuzminov, Kyrylo Budanov, Andrii Yusova Organizations: Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, Street Journal, Service, Wall Street, Radio Free Europe, Ukrainian, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's Military Intelligence, Kyiv Independent Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Russia's, Ukrainian, Kuzminov, Verkhovna, Kyiv
☆ A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine said his helicopter crew panicked when they realised what was happening but couldn't stop him as he was the only one who could fly it
  + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Russian pilot defected and brought his helicopter to Ukraine last month, Ukrainian officials said. The pilot said his crew couldn't stop him as he was the only one on board who knew how to fly it. Ukrainian officials said both were killed. Ukrainian officials said a six-month plot led to the Russian Mi-8 AMTSh landing at a military air base in Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine, last month. "Nobody could put up any resistance," he added, because no one else on board knew how to fly the helicopter.
Persons: Kuzminov, Kyrylo Budanov Organizations: Service, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, Daily, Radio Free Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Kharkiv, Russia's, Radio Free Europe
☆ The Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine said he did it to avoid being involved in 'genocide'
  + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Russian pilot said he defected to Ukraine, along with his helicopter, to escape what he called 'genocide'. Ukraine published an interview of the pilot, Maksym Kuzminov, who defected in August. Kuzminov said that he defected because he did not want to be involved in war crimes, per CNN's translation. He also didn't explain adding "both Ukrainian and Russian" — though the Russian military has experienced high casualties in the war its civilian population has come to harm on the scale of Ukraine's. AdvertisementAdvertisementElsewhere in his interview, Kuzminov detailed how he arranged his defection with Ukrainian intelligence operatives, who said they spent six months planning the operation.
Persons: Maksym Kuzminov, Kuzminov Organizations: UN, Service, Ukrainian Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia's, Russia, Ukraine —
☆ Russian pilot who defected with stolen fighter jet spare parts gets $500,000 reward from Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Russian pilot who surrendered to Ukraine will receive $500,000 reward from the war-torn country. Ukraine passed a law last year offering up to $1 million to Russian soldiers for stolen equipment. Maksym Kuzminov, a 28-year-old Russian helicopter pilot, surrendered to Ukraine last month, bringing with him an Mi-8 helicopter and stolen fighter jet spare parts. Ukraine's Parliament started the "I want to live" initiative in April 2022 encouraging Russian soldiers to surrender and offering them up to $1 million for stolen equipment, EuroMaidan Press reported. Kuzminov is now encouraging other Russian soldiers to follow his example and abandon Russia's war.
Persons: Maksym, Andrii Yusova, Kuzminov Organizations: Service, Ukraine's Military Intelligence, Kyiv Independent, Ukraine's, EuroMaidan Press, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, CNN Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia
☆ The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter is encouraging other Russians to do the same, promising they'll be taken care of for life
  + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter spoke publicly for the first time. The Ukrainian defense agency identified the pilot as Maksym Kuzminov, a 28-year-old former captain in Russia's 319th separate helicopter regiment. The defense intelligence on Sunday published a documentary on YouTube called "Downed Russian Pilots" that details the defection plot. The pilot said he coordinated with Ukrainian military intelligence, which was able to create the circumstances for his safe defection. "What is happening now is simply genocide of the Ukrainian people: both Ukrainian and Russian," Kuzminov said.
Persons: Maksym Kuzminov, Kuzminov, Vladimir Putin's Organizations: Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, Service, Russian Telegram, Eastern Military District, YouTube, Russian Pilots, Ukrainian, Verkhovna Rada, Russian, CNN, Ukrainian Rada, Radio Free, Radio Liberty Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Russia, Russia's, Verkhovna, Kharkiv, Radio Free Europe
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