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A FORMER Russian spy chief has been found dead in the stairwell of an apartment in an apparent suicide, just weeks after his fellow Kremlin boss died.

He told The Daily Beast: "Nobody’s gonna ask, 'Hey Vladimir, would you like to leave?' No. It’s a f**king hammer to the head and he’s dead. He was discovered with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood, next to a note, although a knife found in the bathtub would have too out-of-reach for the wounds to be self-inflicted. Many of you want to help the five million caught in the chaos — and now you can, by donating to The Sun's Ukraine Fund. - L. Sotskov." In April, the bodies of a top Russian banker and his family were discovered at his Moscow apartment, after the bank had been slapped with Western sanctions. Lobachev and Sotskov are the latest high-profile Russian figures to be found dead in mysterious circumstances since the start of the war with Ukraine. Vladislav Avayev, 51, was found dead along with his wife Yelena, 47, and his 13-year-old daughter Maria at their home in the Russian capital. The note read: "The pistol is a relic of the battles on the Khalkhin-Gol River. I received it when I was an envoy to the Mongolian secret service, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Ulan-Bator, in 1989. On June 15, former Major General of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Lev Sotskov was found dead in his apartment. A FORMER Russian spy chief has been found dead in the stairwell of an apartment in an apparent suicide, just weeks after his fellow Kremlin boss died in the same mysterious circumstances. "The cause of death was suicide," a source told Russian state media agency TASS. The body of retired FSB general Yevgeny Lobachev, 76, was discovered in the entrance to an apartment building in southeast Moscow on Wednesday, according to Russian news agency REN TV.