Putin has always been ruthless in dealing with traitors, and he directly pursued them to the ends of the earth. This Kuzminov was once again vividly displayed in this incident.
In August 2023, the *** group of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Captain Maxim Kuzminov, received an order from their superiors to transport a batch of top-secret equipment to the front line in Ukraine. Kuzminov, who has always harbored evil intentions, knew that his opportunity had come the moment he received the order, and he had long heard that the Ukrainian side had offered a large reward for defecting Russian servicemen. He had this idea for a long time, but because he was only a captain, he was not taken seriously when he went, and he couldn't get much money.
The top-secret words in this transportation order made him feel an opportunity, if he could bring a batch of top-secret equipment to the past, he would definitely be able to get a lot of money. So Kuzminov violated the regulations and deliberately broke the other two comrades-in-arms of the crew, and secretly opened the seal to check the top-secret materials they were going to transport, and he found that it was the latest Russian fighter electronic warfare pod! 
This electronic warfare pod is an important ** newly developed by Russia for fighters to suppress Ukrainian fighters and air defense radars and large UAVs, and it is of great value to Ukraine. So Kuzminov, who made up his mind, suddenly shot and killed two other comrades in his crew during the transportation, and then drove the Mi8*** directly to Ukraine. And the Ukrainian side is also overjoyed by Kuzminov's defection, not to mention the priceless electronic warfare pod, through which Ukraine can easily decipher the secrets of Russia's electronic warfare. 
Kuzminov instantly became a world celebrity of Ukrainian heroes, and proudly accepted all kinds of ** interviews. And the Ukrainian side did not treat him badly, and after giving him a large sum of money, the Ukrainian intelligence services forged a brand new identity certificate for him and sent him to a European country to spend the rest of his life.
The Russian side is very angry, and the spokesman of the Russian army bluntly said in an interview that Putin has ordered the GRU special forces to hunt down the traitor Kuzminov around the world.
It should be noted here that in general, this kind of foreign intelligence gathering and assassination work is generally managed by the Foreign Military Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. But Putin ordered it to be carried out by the GRU special forces.
The GRU is the highest-level and most mysterious department of all Russian intelligence agencies, when the Soviet Union collapsed, even the KGB was abolished, but the GRU was intact and preserved, which shows the mystery and power of this department. The elusive Chechen ** Dudayev was assassinated by the GRU. The Foreign Military Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation has been infiltrated by Americans before, there have been many leaks, and it has missed many assassination attempts, but the GRU has almost no record of misses. So by handing over the case to the GRU, it can be seen that Putin is really angry and has to kill Kuzminov.
There is also the fact that the style of the Russian intelligence services is very ostentatious, especially in punishing traitors, which is completely different from ordinary intelligence services. While most intelligence services keep a low profile for fear of being discovered, Russia is high-profile lest others know about it.
For example, the KGB originally had a senior intelligence officer stationed in Europe, and in order to obtain profits, he sold a large number of KGB secrets, resulting in many comrades being captured and killed. After Putin came to power, this person has already quietly emigrated to a British town, and more than ten years have passed, but Putin still ordered him to be poisoned, and deliberately used a nerve agent unique to Russian intelligence, in fact, directly announcing to the world that I am punishing traitors.
This time is the same, although the fake identity made by the Ukrainian intelligence department is seamless, and the entire process of transferring personnel is highly confidential, which makes it much more difficult for the Russian army's GRU to detect, but after nearly half a year of hard work, the GRU still found Kuzminov's traces in a small town in Spain. 
And the process of hoeing and raping was also very violent, the GRU operatives drove directly into Kuzminov when he went out, hit him and then got out of the car and fired with a submachine gun, Kuzminov was directly beaten into a hornet's nest.
This is the style of action of Russia and Putin, which is to blatantly tell the world that those who betray the motherland should be severely punished.