Traitor who handed over Ukraine's only submarine killed in Sevastopol
Robert Shagueyev, the captain who defected and handed the Zaporizhzhia to Russia, dies in an attack in Sevastopol that Kyiv celebrates and Moscow calls an attack.
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The captain who handed over the Zaporizhzhia submarine, killed in Sevastopol
Sevastopol has once again been the scene of a settling of scores with a Cold War flavor. While the FSB confirms the death of a member of the Russian Defense Ministry without giving a name, unofficial Ukrainian sources have already put a name to it: Robert Shagueyev, the naval captain who defected during the annexation of Crimea and handed Moscow the Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's only submarine. Myrotvorets, the Ukrainian database of traitors and war incivil, lists him as "liquidated".
The scene, according to initial reports, points to an explosive device detonated remotely. A version circulating on social media, not independently verified, points to Margarita Reut, 32, a resident of Sochi, as the alleged perpetrator: she would have hidden the bomb in a trash bin and detonated it as the officer passed by. Detained, she would have confessed to acting on orders from the SBU, with payment in cryptocurrencies.
Deterrent effect or symbolic gesture
The debate, as often happens in these cases, oscillates between those who see the attack as an unmistakable message to defectors and those who dismiss it as a sensationalist headline with no real impact on the Russian chain of command. What is not in dispute is the symbolic weight: Shagueyev embodied one of the most painful betrayals for Kyiv, the one that handed over Ukraine's only submarine without a single shot fired.
The widow, if there is one, will know whom to thank or blame. But the attack leaves an uncomfortable question: are the days numbered for the rest of those who crossed to the wrong side in 2014?
Sevastopol has once again been the scene of a settling of scores with a Cold War flavor. While the FSB confirms the death of a member of the Russian Defense Ministry without giving a name, unofficial Ukrainian sources have already put a name to it: Robert Shagueyev, the naval captain who defected during the annexation of Crimea and handed Moscow the Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's only submarine. Myrotvorets, the Ukrainian database of traitors and war incivil, lists him as "liquidated".
The scene, according to initial reports, points to an explosive device detonated remotely. A version circulating on social media, not independently verified, points to Margarita Reut, 32, a resident of Sochi, as the alleged perpetrator: she would have hidden the bomb in a trash bin and detonated it as the officer passed by. Detained, she would have confessed to acting on orders from the SBU, with payment in cryptocurrencies.
Deterrent effect or symbolic gesture
The debate, as often happens in these cases, oscillates between those who see the attack as an unmistakable message to defectors and those who dismiss it as a sensationalist headline with no real impact on the Russian chain of command. What is not in dispute is the symbolic weight: Shagueyev embodied one of the most painful betrayals for Kyiv, the one that handed over Ukraine's only submarine without a single shot fired.
The widow, if there is one, will know whom to thank or blame. But the attack leaves an uncomfortable question: are the days numbered for the rest of those who crossed to the wrong side in 2014?
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