Ukrainian refugee set alight by ‘jealous ex-husband’ in Russia | World News

A refugee from Ukraine died of horrific burns after she was doused with petrol and set alight in Russia.

Shakhnoza Dadadzhanova, 36, was killed after she was set ablaze ‘by her ex-husband Ayat Aliyev, 49’, according to reports.

NTV released a distressing video showing how the mum-of-two was covered in fuel then set alight.

She had arrived home in the Moscow region with a bunch of flowers and coffee.

Her ex-husband, who she had dumped because of he used to ‘beat her everyday’, allegedly waited at her front door.

The man asked her: ‘Where have you been?’

Shakhnoza replied: ‘At a birthday party.’

When asked whose birthday party it was, she responded: ‘My female friend’s.’

Security camera footage shows a man douse her with petrol which is then ignited as she sought to fight him off.

She flees and tries to remove her clothing and roll on the ground to put out the flames.

Witnesses used water to help extinguish the flames and said Shakhnoza was screaming in pain.

Shakhnoza was hospitalised with third degree burns, and died three days after the attack.

The suspect has been detained and an investigation launched into attempted murder, and could be jailed for 20 years, according to the Russian Investigative Committee.

The victim’s sister Aziza Dadabaeva said: ‘He beat her constantly, so she left him.

‘But he stalked her.’

NTV reported that he was ‘extremely jealous’.

She had moved to Russia from Kherson in Ukraine when unrest first flared in the ex-Soviet republic in 2014, according to reports.

She had been married to the alleged attacker but then threw him out.

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