'A man who knows how to hold a weapon is now of great interest to Russia...They will force him to go to war in every possible way,' Mikhail Zhilin's wife said.
's Federal Guard Service , who fled Russia to avoid the Kremlin's partial mobilization order, has been detained in Kazakhstan and faces extradition, according to local media reports.
He worked as a shift supervisor at the Federal Guard Service's special communications and information department in Siberia, and was responsible for communications between Putin's government and other Russian regions.
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