On June 18, 2020, German federal prosecutors in Berlin charged a Russian national going by the name of “Vadim Sokolov” with the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Sokolov had shot Khangoshvili in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten in August 2019. In December 2019, the Bellingcat investigation team established that “Vadim Sokolov” was in fact Vadim Krasikov, an individual with ties to the FSB, Russia’s domestic security agency. Khangoshvili was a Georgian national and former Chechen rebel commander. He had been seeking asylum in Germany since 2016 under the name Tornike K, after Russian authorities had classified him as a terrorist. The German court found that the Russian state had ordered the killing, which constituted an act of “state terrorism”. Following the conviction of Krasikov, Germany’s Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Germany in response to the murder.