Second Suspicious Death At Villajoyosa Complex With Russian And Ukrainian Connections

A erstwhile elder Ukrainian authorities apical charismatic was recovered dormant successful nan swimming excavation of his flat analyzable successful Villajoyosa, adjacent Benidorm. According to reports from El Español and Ukrainian media, Ihor Hrushevskyi, aged 61, had worked for Ukraine’s Interior Ministry during nan 1990s, serving successful a high-ranking position wrong its Department for Combating Organised Crime.

Neighbours discovered his assemblage floating face-down successful nan communal excavation astatine nan Cala Alta residential complex, a edifice area celebrated pinch Russian and Ukrainian expatriates connected Saturday June 29.

Spanish authorities told El Español location were nary clear signs of violence, but said nan anticipation of foul play had not been ruled out. A abrupt aesculapian condition, specified arsenic a changeable aliases cardiac arrest, is being considered, but nan lawsuit remains nether investigation. Residents said they were unaware of nan decease until questioned by reporters.

The newspaper besides noted nan trouble successful confirming specifications astir Hrushevskyi’s past. “The confidentiality inherent successful 1 of nan Ukrainian government’s elite units turns Ihor into a ghost,” it wrote, citing a deficiency of disposable nationalist records.

Hrushevskyi had reportedly been surviving successful nan analyzable for astir 16 months. The Ukrainian overseas ministry has not commented connected nan case, but nan nationalist broadcaster Suspilne quoted officials saying nan consulate successful Spain was managing nan repatriation of his remains.

His decease occurred astatine nan aforesaid location wherever Russian subject defector Maksim Kuzminov was assassinated successful February 2024. Kuzminov, a 28-year-old chopper pilot, defected from Russia successful August 2023, flying his Mi-8 beneath radar and surrendering some nan craft and classified worldly to Ukrainian authorities. He later appeared connected Ukrainian TV, denouncing nan warfare arsenic “a genocide of nan Ukrainian people”.

Kuzminov was changeable aggregate times successful nan parking car shed of nan Cala Alta complex. Russian authorities TV had antecedently reported that subject intelligence agency GRU had been ordered to destruct him. Days aft his death, Sergei Naryshkin, caput of Russia’s overseas intelligence work SVR, called him “a traitor and criminal” but did not corroborate whether Moscow was down nan killing.

Ukrainian officials had reportedly warned Kuzminov not to time off nan state contempt being granted a caller personality and a $500,000 reward. He nevertheless chose to settee successful Villajoyosa, a municipality whose sanction intends “joyful village”, connected Spain’s Costa Blanca.