Russian Escort Detained for Murder of Defector Captain in Sevastopol
A glamorous Russian escort has been charged with the murder of a former Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia, writes The New York Post.
32-year-old Margarita Reut was detained in Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea after Robert Shageev — a Russian Black Sea Fleet officer, who was on Ukraine's wanted list for high treason — died in an explosion on Thursday, August 13.
The 49-year-old captain 1st rank died on the spot.
Reut was quickly detained and gave a confession. She was taken into custody on charges of terrorism, Russian channels reported.
Reut showed no remorse and answered "no" when asked if she regretted the murder.
Russian citizen Margarita Reut appeared on escort websites and also worked as a biologist, producing vaginal suppositories with floral extracts. She was born in Yaroslavl and had previously lived in Sochi.
It is unknown when and how she allegedly became an agent of Ukrainian intelligence.
Reut was previously detained in July 2025 after she shouted "That's what you deserve, Russians!" on a Samara — Adler train following news of a Ukrainian drone attack on a railway station in Russia's Rostov region. She was then detained for two days for insubordination during arrest and fined $365 for "discrediting" the Russian army.
Shageev, a Ukrainian defector, joined the Russian army after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. He is the former commander of the Ukrainian submarine "Zaporizhzhia."
The explosion occurred in a trash can next to him as he was descending the stairs.
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