Russian Spy Dodges Putin’s Death Squad in Disgusting Way
The former Federal Security Service agent found a novel way to flee across the border.
Ramil Sitdikov/Pool/Reuters
A former Russian spy says he managed to evade a death squad by hiding inside a cow carcass. Dmitry Senin, 47, revealed to The Telegraph the gruesome details of how he crawled inside the dead animal to avoid detection while on the run from Vladimir Putin’s goons. Senin, a top-ranking Federal Security Service agent, was tipped off in 2017 that his colleagues were seeking to arrest him for treason as he was probing corruption claims against a high-ranking police officer. Senin eventually plotted his escape while using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 as a cover. With the help of smugglers posing as farmers, Senin donned a gas mask, wrapped himself in aluminum foil, and hid inside a dead cow, waiting for more than an hour before he and the cow were taken via a tractor across the border to neighboring Kazakhstan. After getting dumped in no-man’s land between the two countries, Senin crawled out of the carcass and made his way to Montenegro. “Fear is an emotion that you have to control, and I assessed the risk, and I knew that no one was going to shoot at the cow,” Senin said.
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