According to the reports, the former Ukrainian official found dead in the group in the resort of Spain, where the Russian military deserter was killed

A Ukrainian man who previously worked as a senior official in an anti -organized crime agency was found dead at the end of last month in the pool in his apartment complex in the city of Villajoyosa in southern Villajoyosa. The Ukrainian and Spanish media say that Ihor’s body Hrushevskyi was found at the end of last month in the same apartment complex, where a Russian military helicopter pilot turned into a defector was shot dead in February 2024.

The Spanish newspaper edition for the Alicante region in southeastern Spain said he had interviewed at least 20 residents of the Cala Alta Apartment Complex, where the neighbors found at 61 Ukrainian floating years mouth face down in the pool on June 29.

The newspaper cited local authorities saying that there were no apparent signs of a violent attack, but that dirty game was not ruled out as the investigation progressed. They said that a medical crisis, such as a stroke or heart failure, could have been a factor, but they told the newspaper that death seemed suspicious.

Many residents of the complex, who is popular among Russian and Ukrainian expatriates, told El Español that they were not even aware of death until journalists arrived asking questions. The document said that his efforts to dig up personal information about Hrushevskyi were challenging, which gave the nature of his old job in Ukraine.

“The confidentiality inherent to one of the elite units of the Ukrainian government makes Ihor a ghost, without a trace in official documents or public information,” said the Spanish.

According to the newspaper, Hrushevsky moved to the Cala Alta Apartment complex about 16 months before being found dead.

The Pravda Daily newspaper of Ukraine also reported that Hrushevskyi had worked as a senior official in the Department of the Ministry of Interior to combat organized crime during the 1990s. The State State News Agency of Russia also reported the details of the story, citing the Spanish report.

There were no immediate comments from the Ukrainian authorities about death, although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was summoned by the National Public Issuer suspicious saying that the Ukrainian consulate in Spain was handling the repatriation of the Hrushevskyi body.

His body was discovered about a year and a half after the police found bullet remains. Russian military helicopter pilot Maksim Kuzminov In the parking lot of the same apartment complex in Villajoya, a city on the Mediterranean coast whose name means “Aldea Alegre”.

Kuzminov, who was killed at the age of 28, arrived at the headlines for the first time in his native region when he defected from Russia, flying his MI-8 helicopter below the radar in August 2023 through the border to Ukraine.

He delivered the helicopter, the sensitive military team and the Russian intelligence of high secret to the Ukrainian authorities before appearing on Ukrainian television and calling the war launched by President Vladimir Putin “a genocide of the Ukrainian people.”

A few days after he was killed, Russian state news agencies cited Sergei Naryshkin, head of the Russian foreign intelligence service, such as Calling Kuzminov a “traitor and criminal” who had become “a moral corpse at the same time that he planned his dirty and terrible crime.”

Naryshkin did not confirm or denied the Russian participation in the murder of the former pilot, but months before, Russian state television said the Grucia Intelligence Agency “received the order” to eliminate Kuzminov.

The 60 minutes of News reported last year that the Ukrainian government gave Kuzminov about $ 500,000 and a new Ukrainian identity, and the officials warned him not to leave the country due to the threat of possible reprisals by Russia. But he decided to risk a life to the Sun of Villajoyosa, regardless of.

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