RVC fighter and ex-FSB officer Bogdanov goes missing in Kyiv: his restaurant burned down in October - media
Kyiv law enforcement officers have launched a search for a former FSB officer and Russian Volunteer Corps fighter, Ilya Bogdanov, who has been fighting on the side of Ukraine since 2014.
According to Censor.NET, this was reported to Suspilne by the Kyiv National Police.
"Ilya Bogdanov is on the wanted list of the Sviatoshynskyi Police Department. The police received the appeal on November 20. He is considered to be missing," said Anna Strashok, a spokeswoman for the Kyiv National Police.
The disappearance of Bogdanov was reported in social networks the day before.
The network wrote that he was last seen in Kyiv on Nyzhniy Val Street, where the Korean restaurant Pyan-Se, owned by Bogdanov himself, is located.
It should be noted that in late October, Ilya Bogdanov claimed that his Korean restaurant Pyan-Se was set on fire.
According to him, at first, law enforcement officers did not want to investigate the case and "wanted to write it off as an accident."
At the time, according to Bogdanov, "the restaurant was set on fire as a veteran business, just like military vehicles are set on fire." But later, the SES found that the fire was caused by a short circuit.
He also published surveillance videos, which he claimed showed the arsonist.
What is known about Ilya Bogdanov?
Prior to the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Bogdanov worked for the Russian Federal Security Service.
In 2014, after the outbreak of war in eastern Ukraine, Ilya Bogdanov sided with the Ukrainian side and joined the volunteer battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine "Donbas". Later, as a member of the Right Sector Volunteer Ukrainian Corps, he participated in the battles for Ilovaisk and Donetsk Airport.
After the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bohdanov participated in the defense of Kyiv. In late March, he was wounded. After his recovery, he joined the Russian Volunteer Corps.
