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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Vanessa Thorpe and Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Russian army ‘came knocking’ to recruit son of slain spy Alexander Litvinenko

Anatoly Litvinenko
Anatoly Litvinenko said the officers came round soon after Putin announced his plans for mobilisation in Russia. Photograph: Sent by him

The Moscow home of the son of Alexander Litvinenko, the defector killed with polonium-210 in London in 2006, has been visited by recruiting officers from the Russian army hoping to sign him up.

Anatoly Litvinenko, 28, has revealed that he was called up for military service in Ukraine a few weeks ago by soldiers who seemed unaware of his tragic history with Vladimir Putin’s regime.

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