Before and during the Russia-Ukraine war, many political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin have met their untimely deaths over the years in a variety of ways; including falls from.
A long list of Russian politicians, journalists, human rights activists and prominent businessmen have died or narrowly escaped death after crossing President Vladimir Putin.
A plane crash which killed all 10 people on board is widely seen as an act of revenge after a short-lived rebellion that Vladimir Putin branded a "stab in the back".
Falls from windows, poisoned food, physically impossible self-strangulation, and bodies discovered with head trauma or bullet holes — these are some of the ways that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political opponents have met their unnatural deaths in recent years.