1. Zelimkhan Sultanovich Khangoshvili was an ethnic Chechen born in Georgia who was a former platoon commander for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as a volunteer during the Second Chechen War, and a Georgian military officer during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War.
On 23 August 2019, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was assassinated in Kleiner Tiergarten, a park in Berlin, by FSB operative Vadim Krasikov.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was born into the family of Sultan Khangoshvili on 15 August 1979, in the Duisi village of the Pankisi Gorge, a region of Georgia home to a large ethnic Chechen population known as the Kists.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was the nephew of Chechen and Kist historian Khaso Khangoshvili.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili finished school in Pankisi and later went to work in Chechnya, the residence of his elder brother Zurab, in the late 1990s.
In 2001, after the outbreak of the Second Chechen War, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili joined the armed resistance of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in their fight against Russia.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was a field commander and had close ties to former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed in March 2005 in a raid by the Federal Security Service.
Khangoshvili's brother, Zurab, confirmed that Zelimkhan participated in the 2004 Nazran raid on security, military and police forces in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia that neighbours Chechnya.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was reportedly wounded in the leg during this battle.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili's body was later transported to Georgia, and was buried in his birth village on 29 August 2019.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili's assassin, detained by German police, traveled on a valid Russian passport issued under the fake identity of Vadim Sokolov.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili added that "there had been an abuse of visas issued at the Slovak general consulate in St Petersburg, and in this connection a serious crime was committed on the territory of another EU and NATO member state".