Glam Miss Ukraine finalist was sole witness to chilling murder of Putin's greatest rival

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Vladimir Putin shows zero tolerance for his opponents. Just this week he authorised a brutal crackdown on protests against the Ukrainan invasion in the streets of Moscow.High-profile critics such as Alexander Litvinenko and Alexei Navalny have been poisoned by Putin’s henchmen.And Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot while walking across a bridge in Moscow not far from the Kremlin in February 2015.

He died hours after publicly expressing his support for a march against Russian aggression in Ukraine. Officially, the crime remains unsolved.The only witness to the shocking incident was 23-year-old Ukrainian fashion model Anna Durytska, who was Nemtsov’s girlfriend at the time.Durytska saw little of the attack, in which Nemtsov was shot several times from a passing car."I don't know where [the shooter] came from, but he was behind," she said."I didn't see the man.

I turned round and all I saw was a light-coloured car. I I didn’t have item to see the make of the car nor its license plate as it was driving away."Still, efforts were made to ensure she didn’t testify.Immediately after the murder, Durytska was held under house arrest by Russian police, and Pro-Putin news agencies leaked "spicy" and "erotic lingerie photos of the former beauty queen in a bid to discredit her.Propagada chiefs loyal to Putin also planted stories that Nemtsov had flown Durytska to a Swiss clinic for an abortion to smear their reputations.Durytska flew to Kyiv shortly after being released by the Russian authorities, and refused to return to Moscow to answer further questions.Her lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov, said his client had been left "emotionally drained" by hours of questioning from the Russian authorities."She has given a full and.