Putin's security guard fled Russia abroad and told how the Russian President is protected from threats and dangers

A former employee of the Federal Security Service, who guarded Vladimir Putin’s dacha in Crimea, managed to quit the service and go to Ecuador. He calls Putin a criminal and says he opposes the war in Ukraine. A report about him was published on the TV channel "Rain«.

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The Federal Security Service is perhaps one of the most closed structures in Russia. An organization that is responsible for the security of the president and essentially protects everything that belongs to him for 23 years.

The manic security measures of Russia's top official are legendary. Very little is known about how the Federal Security Service operates in the annexed Crimea. Journalists managed to talk to a man who served as the Federal Protective Service for several years on the territory of the annexed peninsula, and then he had to flee 12 thousand kilometers from this place.

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Vitaly Brizhaty moved with his Crimean wife to the annexed Crimea from Kamchatka, got a job in the riot police, and then in the FSO as a canine instructor.

What did Vitaly do in the FSO?

He guarded Putin's dacha in the village of Oliva on the southern coast of Crimea. Next door are the dachas of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and FSB head Alexander Bortnikov, says “Radio Liberty".

“The entire sea has been blocked - now people cannot go to the sea in peace. After all, President Putin gets his feet wet here. Next door is the director of the FSB. I was at the dacha of the director of the FSB - the dacha is very large. In Crimea there were even some protests about this, that they built, in my opinion, a 3,5-meter fence, each span with a camera,” says Vitaly.

“When you see that, you’re like, ‘Come on! This is how people can live!” That is, it also has its own fountains, beautiful parks, tea houses, fitness centers, helicopter pads, barbecue areas, and its own beach. This water, of course, is protected by FSO employees - they have a special department of divers that monitors the coastal zone, says Vitaly. — People work at these dachas. A man with a rank, but his position is washing machine operator. Regular employees are not allowed inside. These are mainly cleaners who have special access to go there. Because you never know who even goes to the toilet. And then the first person in the country will sit on it.”

“If the owner of this dacha or a guest comes there, it has its own dining room. The cafeteria keeps food in case of arrival. If food goes missing, they most likely just throw it away and buy new food,” says Vitaly.

“Well, so to speak, workers. They come, they can come in, for example, with a phone. Employees of the Federal Security Service are prohibited from using smartphones. It’s written on every board that all smartphones are the enemy. But all communication takes place on WhatsApp. Security searches everyone with a metal detector, they take away passports and take away phones,” he says.

Vitaly's job as a cynologist was to inspect things for explosives, explosive devices.

“For example, when the top authorities come, they start carrying gifts to these top people in Kamaz trucks. And dog handlers go to see these gifts. Matvienko was on vacation, they brought her a TV - why does she need a TV?” recalls Vitaly.

“Putin doesn’t trust his own people”

According to Brizhaty, Putin does not trust anyone, not even his security, who may not know whether the president is nearby or not. “They can tell people: ‘He’s resting at this dacha,’ and everyone is running around, guarding him, but he could be in another place,” says the former security guard of the Russian president.

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According to him, during Putin’s trips to Crimea, his arrival is announced at two airports at once - Sevastopol and Simferopol, the distance between them is more than 100 kilometers. But the president may arrive by other means of transport, for example by sea. “This is how a person fears for his life,” says Brizhaty.

“Putin’s guests are kept in quarantine at their dachas. The governor of Sevastopol spent 3 weeks alone in quarantine,” he says.

Long layoff

He says he became disillusioned with the president after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

FSO employees were prohibited from communicating with Ukrainian relatives, citizens of the United States and the European Union, and any people opposed to the war, under threat of criminal prosecution, as follows from his story.

“They even made some kind of regulation that if you communicate with a citizen of Ukraine there, the United States, Europe, then a trial will be ordered and, in my opinion, up to 5 years in prison,” says Vitaliy. “I was also afraid of falling under him, because I have a friend who lives in America, my classmate. He is an opponent of war, I sometimes communicate with him. And how they explained to us that, they say, you are communicating with some comrade, and he wrote an anti-war comment on Instagram. They will arrest you."

“Any word you say can be used against you. Even if you are standing and talking with a comrade, after five minutes he is already writing a text message to your commander saying that you said something so bad,” says Vitaly.

“I immediately decided that I had to quit and not participate in this...what is it...even I don’t know what to call it. I don't even know, I can't think of words. What can you call it? Our president tells us on TV that nothing will happen because we are not going to fight, we will not fight. You know, you always want to believe that the president is a person who doesn’t lie,” says Vitaly. — That is, you sometimes forgive when the retirement age or its extension does not concern you. But when it’s already like this, it’s already really serious.”

His colleagues hoped that after the war, if Ukraine was captured, they would have more work and new positions would appear: “it will be necessary to guard something there.” He himself tried to quit the service, but at first they did not let him go, at the same time threatening to send him to war.

Vitaly's letter of resignation was not accepted. But they called for a conversation with the authorities.

“The commander comes and says that they don’t like Russians, watch TV. I say that I don't watch TV. He wonders: “How come you don’t watch TV? Look what they say - that’s where the saleswoman of Russian flags was attacked!” These are probably still some Soviet techniques,” says Vitaly. “Here they are trying to talk about the same thing for two hours.” And in the end they started telling me: “Don’t forget - we are an all-powerful office, and we can send you to the front immediately after you sign the bypass sheet. We will let you out, and your comrades from the military registration and enlistment office will be waiting for you at the exit from our building.”

Vitaly continued to write reports, but there was only one answer: “during a special military operation, no one can quit.”

Vitaly began looking on the Internet for lawyers who would help him quit the FSO. It turned out that according to the law, a person who has foreign citizenship or a residence permit cannot work in the FSO. The family decided that they needed to obtain a residence permit abroad. The easiest way to do this was in Ecuador.

He secretly received a passport from work. His wife obtained a residence permit in Ecuador as a skilled worker. The brizhaty informed his employer that he now also has a residence permit and the law prohibits him from serving in the FSO. After this he was fired.

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“The last phrase I heard when I left was: “Good luck at the front!” - he says.

Vitaly quit in December - for 8 months he fought for his right to dismissal. The family moved to Ecuador.

“At least I stopped being afraid to speak. Now I can calmly write some message on WhatsApp and talk with my friends and not be afraid that my words will be used against me. You see, many people do not want to participate in this war, they lack some kind of impetus to do so, they are constantly intimidated and told that no one needs you there,” says Vitaly. “Even I found a job in Ecuador - without the language.”

“People are zombified by propaganda, and they don’t understand what’s happening. This country will be a pariah no matter the outcome. We are okay, but our children are deprived of a future,” he said.

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