"Russian Pilot Defects to Ukraine, Shot 5 Times Near Police Station: WSJ"

Maksym Kuzminov, a Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine and later moved to Spain, was shot five times and killed in February near a police station, with suspicions that the Kremlin may have been involved. His death is seen as part of a series of mysterious Russian deaths, including that of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Alexey Navalny, raising suspicions about the Kremlin's efforts to eliminate Putin's critics.