Russian ex-navy officer killed in the Ukraine conflict while jogging in Krasnodar

According to local media, a former Russian submarine captain who served as a mobilisation officer was fatally murdered while running in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.

According to state-run Rossiya 1 in Russia, a gunman who has not been recognised shot and killed Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, on Monday.

Several Russian media sites conjectured that he might have been located because of his Strava fitness app profile. The killing is the subject of an inquiry by Russian authorities.

The counterpart of the US FBI in this country, the Investigative Committee, announced the start of a murder investigation and said investigators will work to “establish all the circumstances of the incident, as well as the person who committed the crime and his motives.”

According to the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, the former naval officer was shot in the back and the chest while out for his morning jog in a park next to the Olimp sports facility.

According to Baza, a police-affiliated Russian Telegram group, the murderer may have traced Cpt. Rzhitsky’s runs on Strava because he frequently ran the same route.

Cpt. Rzhitsky’s public profile, which was examined by BBC Verify, reveals that he routinely ran through the region where he is said to have been slain. The BBC’s facial analysis verified that the profile belonged to Cpt. Rzhitsky.

His address and personal details had also been uploaded to the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets (Peacemaker), a vast unofficial database of people considered to be enemies of Ukraine.

The word “Liquidated”, in red letters, has now been superimposed on his photograph on the site.

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