Russian spy shot in the head in execution-style killing in heart of Moscow in latest assassination to rock Putin
Russian spy shot in the head in execution-style killing in heart of Moscow in latest assassination to rock Putin
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A RUSSIAN FSB counterintelligence officer has been shot dead inside the country's defence ministry premises in the heart of Moscow. Vladimir Feshchenko, 26, a senior lieutenant, was killed by a bullet to the head in the mysterious shooting in the latest blow to tyrant Putin.
![[Vladimir Feshchenko, a Russian FSB counterintelligence officer, wearing a red jacket and gold medal.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/3afe3d8d-4270-43d6-855b-380650c886ba_12e9c5.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Feshchenko died on the night of Monday, January 13, in the departmental building on Olkhovskaya Street. The killer was allegedly a more junior warrant officer who was visiting him in his office in a defence ministry building. The victim “was covered in blood - there was a deep wound on his forehead”, reports say.
![[Vladimir Feshchenko and his father.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/dd2e884b-69dd-4869-9b72-9275b4b9d736_feb63c.jpg?strip=all&w=777)
The suspect was detained soon afterwards but intrigue surrounds the incident. Feshchenko - a Russian champion in kettlebell lifting as well as a secret services officer - is believed to have worked at the FSB Directorate for the Moscow Military District.
![[Man in red and black shirt competing in kettlebell lifting.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/russian-fsb-counterintelligence-officer-vladimir-963701218.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Law enforcement expert Vladimir Osechkin, founder of Gulagu.net human rights group, said there is a war underway between the defence ministry and FSB officers assigned to snoop on them. “Here is another case where a soldier simply cannot withstand the pressure and shoots a FSB officer in the forehead with his service weapon,” he said.
The incident would be covered up and portrayed as a “domestic conflict”, he said - which is how it was officially described. Official sources said the murder was the result of a “quarrel between two men” who had served together in the Russian Far East.
