🧵Igor Mangushev has been shot in the head.
He's known for holding the skull of a ukrainian soldier while giving a speech, but many aren't aware of how important of a target Igor truly was...
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Igor Mangushev has a very rich history.
First of all, he has worked as an FSB agent and took part in different undercover missions in countries like Lebanon and Libya.
Secondly, he is in the VDV and also doubles as a Captain in the russian army's 2nd Army Corps.
Igor then went on to create his very own russian PMC. Meet "ENOT Corp".
Famous for their Imperial Russia patches and racism, they took part in protests in 2014, Ukraine, with the goal of starting a civil war.
They created propaganda and attacked protesters.
The PMC went on to start armed attacks against the Ukrainian army under the identity of 'Novorossiya' separatists.
Igor was able to procure cards for his PMC's members proclaiming them as "volunteers" in the "Donetsk People's Republic".
He has even met the famed Igor Girkin.
The PMC maintained a presence in eastern Ukraine from 2015 onwards.
When the war started in 2022, ENOT Corp rallied their troops and joined the fight against Ukraine. They even appeared on russian state media.
Igor posted images from the frontline on various occasions.
Igor Mangushev was assassinated behind frontlines on February 4th 2023 with a 9mm pistol.
He was a more powerful man than even Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Wagner Group.
FSB agent, VDV veteran, Russian army Captain, PMC Leader and most importantly, international terrorist.
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