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For an hour, Dmitry Senin lay still inside the carcass of the dead cow, making certain there was no sign of Russian border guards.
It was twilight in September, a date chosen carefully as it is a time of year when the temperatures drop below freezing on the border between Siberia and Kazakhstan but the snow is yet to arrive, allowing an escapee to take cover among the grasses and crops which carpet the frontier in the early autumn.
The high-flying Federal Security Service (FSB) agent, dressed in a gas mask, a rubber suit and wrapped in tin foil, was running for his life from Vladimir Putin’s death squads – populated by a number of his former colleagues.
His escape from the cow, over the border and onto the back of a motorcycle driven by a former Soviet KGB spy, played out in the shadows of two of the biggest espionage cases in European legal history.
But Senin, 47, is no defector. At least, not in his telling.
Instead, he is what screenwriters would call a rogue agent: an innocent man, he claims, framed for a crime he did not commit, using a very particular set of skills acquired over a long and highly decorated career to stay a step ahead of his own side while trying to clear his name.
It is a story almost too extraordinary to believe. But much of his tale, including how Russian agents have pursued him and his family across Europe, is corroborated by court records and investigations by European security services seen by The Telegraph. Senin’s account, told here for the first time, sheds light on how the Kremlin has dodged repeated rounds of security crackdowns and sanctions to keep a network of spies dotted throughout the Continent – including agents, Senin claims, who have acquired British citizenship.
And it demonstrates how Russia abuses international legal systems to search for those it wants to “liquidate”.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/12/dmitry-senin-russia-fsb-escaped-putin-in-dead-cow/
#putin #FSB #interview
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For an hour, Dmitry Senin lay still inside the carcass of the dead cow, making certain there was no sign of Russian border guards.
It was twilight in September, a date chosen carefully as it is a time of year when the temperatures drop below freezing on the border between Siberia and Kazakhstan but the snow is yet to arrive, allowing an escapee to take cover among the grasses and crops which carpet the frontier in the early autumn.
The high-flying Federal Security Service (FSB) agent, dressed in a gas mask, a rubber suit and wrapped in tin foil, was running for his life from Vladimir Putin’s death squads – populated by a number of his former colleagues.
His escape from the cow, over the border and onto the back of a motorcycle driven by a former Soviet KGB spy, played out in the shadows of two of the biggest espionage cases in European legal history.
But Senin, 47, is no defector. At least, not in his telling.
Instead, he is what screenwriters would call a rogue agent: an innocent man, he claims, framed for a crime he did not commit, using a very particular set of skills acquired over a long and highly decorated career to stay a step ahead of his own side while trying to clear his name.
It is a story almost too extraordinary to believe. But much of his tale, including how Russian agents have pursued him and his family across Europe, is corroborated by court records and investigations by European security services seen by The Telegraph. Senin’s account, told here for the first time, sheds light on how the Kremlin has dodged repeated rounds of security crackdowns and sanctions to keep a network of spies dotted throughout the Continent – including agents, Senin claims, who have acquired British citizenship.
And it demonstrates how Russia abuses international legal systems to search for those it wants to “liquidate”.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/12/dmitry-senin-russia-fsb-escaped-putin-in-dead-cow/
#putin #FSB #interview
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Poor Vladimir Putin. What should he fear more — arrest on his International Criminal Court war-crimes warrant, a palace coup over discontent with his disastrous invasion of Ukraine, or an assassination attempt by Kyiv? https://t.co/WPvms8nxqO
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) May 14, 2026
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