(ANSA) - MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 30 - An agent of the FSO, the federal security service that also deals with the security of President Vladimir Putin, committed suicide inside the walls of the Kremlin by shooting himself with a gun. This was reported by the Telegram Baza channel, usually reliable as it is well connected with the services. According to Baza, he would be agent MikhailZakharov, in force in the fifth department of the service, in charge of the protection of the president.
State news agency Tass confirmed the incident but denied that the agent was part of Putin's bodyguard group. According to Zakharov's colleagues, the extreme gesture is linked to the exhausting working conditions.
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