On Saturday, Russian security forces confronted and killed a heavily-armed man who had broken into a house in the outskirts of Moscow.
The man was dressed in combat gear and carried a Kalashnikov rifle.
He seemed to be threatening to make his way to the Kremlin, which is the government's main building in Moscow.
The guards noticed the intruder after he broke into an empty house in an upscale village called Istra, located about 45 kilometers (less than 30 miles) away from Moscow.
When two guards and a police officer went inside the house, the man pointed his gun at them.
Luckily, the three of them managed to escape.
For several hours, the authorities tried to talk to the intruder, but he refused to give up.
He claimed to have come from Ukraine's front lines and said that God had compelled him to march towards the Kremlin.
Eventually, the special forces stormed the house, and the man fired at them.
In the exchange of gunfire, the intruder was killed.
The Russia National Guard reported that he had multiple automatic weapons and hand grenades.
A Russian lawmaker named Alexander Khinshtein identified the intruder as Vyacheslav Chernenko, a 35-year-old man from the city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.
It's not clear if his claim of fighting in Ukraine is true. An administrator from Istra, Tatiana Vitusheva, described the intruder as mentally unstable.
Some Russian media sources said that the house he broke into once belonged to Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine.
Yanukovych, who was friendly to Moscow, was forced out of office due to large protests and later found refuge in Russia.
The house was up for sale by its current owner who was not in the country at the time of the incident.
This incident drew significant media attention, especially as it happened not long after a failed mutiny led by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had his troops attempt to seize military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don and then move closer to Moscow in an effort to overthrow top military leaders.
The mutiny ended with a deal granting amnesty to Prigozhin and his mercenaries, allowing them to move to Belarus.
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