Overview
- Multiple outlets, citing The Telegraph, published the account Thursday, bringing fresh attention to Dmitry Senin’s claimed 2022 escape.
- Senin, a onetime colonel in Russia’s Federal Security Service, says he became a treason target after probing a senior police corruption case in 2017.
- He says he wore a gas mask and a rubber suit and wrapped himself in foil to blunt thermal cameras before climbing into a dead cow near the Russia–Kazakhstan border.
- According to his account, smugglers posing as farmers hauled the carcass by tractor, he waited about an hour, then crawled out in no-man’s-land and later reached Montenegro with help from a retired KGB officer.
- He says the plan took two months, involved no foreign intelligence help, and he is now hiding in Europe, while newsrooms note that his detailed story has not been independently verified.