A number of high-ranking Russian officials are escaping Vladimir Putin's wretched grasp and defecting to the West.
Vladimir Osechkin, a prominent Russian human rights activist, says he has helped a number of senior FSB agents and even a three-star general to flee Russia since the start of the Ukraine war.
Osechkin knows the risks of defying the Russian state only too well after would-be assassins tried to slaughter him and his family as they sat down for dinner in September 2015.