The spokesperson for Ukraine’s knowledge solution, Andriy Yusov, validated to The Washington Post on Tuesday that the body was that of Kuzminov.

Oleksiy Danilov, assistant of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, alerted that the murder can inspire Russians to take even more such activities.

“If the Russians feel so empowered within the European Union that they start killing people, the question becomes quite complex. This is not the first instance where Russians behave this way,” he informed Ukrainska Pravda late Monday.

Spain’s Interior Ministry would certainly not validate the identification of the body, which it called bullet filled, however recognized in a declaration that more examination right into the situation was required. Investigators had actually originally thought the individual that passed away was a Ukrainian by a various name.

“In the course of the investigation that is being carried out, it has come to our attention that the identity of this person could be false and could be that of another individual. The Guardia Civil is proceeding to verify this, but we are unable to provide any further information at this time,” it claimed.

Spanish media pointed out resources inside the Guardia Civil validating that the body came from Kuzminov.

On the Russian side, some have actually currently been commemorating the fatality. Pro-Kremlin blog writer Sergei Markov uploaded on Telegram that Kuzminov was “eliminated.”

“We will not rejoice in anyone’s death. But this news can save many lives, because it reminds everyone: save your lives and never cooperate with the Ukrainian neo-fascist regime in anything,” he claimed.

Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s international knowledge solution, claimed Tuesday that Kuzminov was dead the minute he began preparing his defection. “In Russia, it is common to speak well of the dead or nothing at all. This traitor and criminal became a moral corpse already at the moment when he was planning his dirty and terrible crime.”

A month after the statement regarding his defection, Russian tv broadcast a 10-minute docudrama in which professionals believed that Kuzminov should have eliminated his fellow servicemen in the helicopter throughout the procedure, and swore retribution.

According to the program, Russia’s army knowledge, called GRU, had actually currently obtained an order to remove him. “He will not live to see the trial,” claimed a boxer with this face concealed on the program.

Ukraine revealed with wonderful excitement in August a knowledge procedure that encouraged Kuzminov to fly his Mi-8 helicopter filled with jet components right into Ukraine to issue. The 2 team participants with him were uninformed of the story and were shot by Ukrainian pressures when they declined to give up, according to authorities.

The Ukrainian federal government later on revealed that the pilot had actually obtained a $500,000 incentive in regional money and motivated various other Russian solution participants to do the same.

Paul Schemm in London added to this record.