A bomb hidden in a bin, a Russian Navy officer killed in the heart of Sevastopol and a woman born in 1994 arrested a few hours later. Behind the attack on 13 August there are two stories that intersect with the war between Russia and Ukraine: that of Robert Shageev, former commander of the only submarine of the Ukrainian Navy passed to Russian forces after the annexation of Crimea, and that of Margarita Reut, a Russian citizen whom Moscow accuses of having set off the bomb on behalf of Kiev’s secret services.
The bomb in Sevastopol and the arrest
The explosion occurred on August 13th near number 30 of Prospekt Stoletovsky, in Sevastopol. The soldier is hit by the explosion of the bomb hidden in a bin and dies on the spot. According to the FSB, the Russian secret service, the person responsible is a Russian citizen born in 1994 who acted “on behalf of the Ukrainian special services”. Kiev has not confirmed this reconstruction.
The next day the Leninsky District Court in Sevastopol orders two months of pre-trial detention. A further detail emerges from the provision: according to investigators, between 25 June and 13 August the woman acted together with other people to prepare an attack against the soldier. On August 13, a homemade bomb was apparently detonated.
The pro-Russian portal Mash claims that, during the interrogation, when asked if she regretted killing the officer the woman only replied: “No”. The same channel claims that he confessed to having received the compensation in cryptocurrencies and that after the explosion he planned to leave Russia starting from Sochi.
Who was Robert Shageev, from Ukraine to the Russian Navy
The story of Robert Mansurovich Shageev begins long before the invasion of Ukraine. Born in 1977 in Crimea, he became a first-rank captain in the Ukrainian Navy. In 2013 he was appointed commander of the submarine Zaporizhzhia, at the time the only submarine of the Kiev naval forces.
In 2014, during the Russian occupation of Crimea, Shageev did not reach Odessa despite the orders received and remained on the peninsula. According to the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation, he handed over the submarine “without a fight”, violating his oath and handing over to the Russian Armed Forces.
After the transition to Russia, Shageev enters the Black Sea Fleet and becomes deputy commander of the fourth autonomous submarine brigade. In July 2022, Ukrainian investigators notified him in absentia of the charge of high treason.
Who is Margarita Reut, the precedent of the train: “Well done, Russians”
The available biographical information comes largely from Russian media. Mash writes that Reut was born in Yaroslavl, lived in Sochi and that she often traveled to Crimea. In the past she would have participated as a volunteer in cleaning the beaches of the Krasnodar Territory after oil pollution and in 2023 she would briefly open a travel agency. The channel also claims that she appeared in chats dedicated to the production of adult content and that her last job was as a biologist.
Then there is a judicial precedent dating back to the summer of 2025. The city court of Goryachy Klyuch, in the Krasnodar Territory, announced that it had fined a woman identified in the documents only as “Reutt ME” 30 thousand rubles for the Russian administrative rule on discrediting the armed forces.
According to the police reconstruction accepted by the court, on the evening of July 18, 2025, while she was on the Samara-Adler train during a drone attack on the Likhaya station, in the Rostov region, the woman shouted: “Good for you, Russians”.