The Kremlin has escalated its bloody purge of Moscow’s anti-war elite, bumping off VIPs in a bid to smash any opposition to Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion.
Fears among Putin’s oligarchy have soared since the suspicious death this month of anti-war oil magnate Ravil Maganov, 67, amid claims he was beaten before “falling” to his death.
It is suspected to be the most high-profile and barely concealed murder of a tycoon who had voiced his disapproval of the war publicly.