Putin’s spymaster ‘ditched bodyguards to visit lover’ before he was ‘shot by hitmen as he left secret tryst’ in Moscow

ONE of Vladimir Putin’s most powerful spymasters was pounced on by hitmen as he left a secret tryst with his glamorous young mistress, it has been claimed. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, 64, was left fighting for his life after he was gunned down in the stairwell of a Moscow apartment building after reportedly ditching his…