Officer in Putin’s security service who ‘REFUSED’ to kill Ukrainians now faces jail

Mikhail Zhilin, 36, with his wife. The officer in Vladimir Putin’s security service, who refused to slaughter Ukrainians and instead fled to Kazakhstan, has been deported to Russia

Federal Protection Service officer Mikhail Zhilin. He had access to Russian state secrets including Putin’s own communications, it is reported

Major Mikhail Zhilin denounced the war and now faces up to 15 years in jail and torture, says his wife

Mikhail Zhilin with his child. Zhilin walked through the forests to reach neighbouring state Kazakhstan, but his bid for asylum was rejected

Pictured: Ekaterina Zhilina, wife of FSO officer Mikhail Zhilin, talked to journalists on the morning of December 30 saying her husband was taken from the detention facility where he was awaiting deportation and allegedly taken to the border with Russia on the evening of December 29

Mikhail Zhilin with his wife Ekaterina. As an FSO officer, he was not permitted to go abroad and was prevented from having a passport

Mikhail pictured with his wife Ekaterina and kids. Mikhail said: ‘I gave an obligation to defend the freedom and independence of my motherland – the Russian Federation – within its borders, and not to conduct aggressive military operations as part of the armed forces of my country to seize the territories of another state’

Mikhail Zhilin with his wife Ekaterina. He was arrested in Kazakhstan after fleeing Russia

Major Mikhail Zhilin fled when he was due to be moved to the war zone where he would have been ‘obliged’ to ‘kill Ukrainian citizens’

The Kazakh authorities have accepted tens of thousands of Russians fleeing the war, but did not show leniency to Zhilin and he was secretly returned to Russia, say reports 

Since being deported this week into the hands of Russian law enforcement, Zhilin has vanished, said his wife Ekaterina, 35, who says he is likely to face torture for fleeing Russia, or to be sent to fight in the war