Viktor Zakhaev is a supporting antagonist in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007).
Biography[]
Viktor Zakhaev was born August 16, 1972 in the Soviet Union. His father named Imran Zakhaev was a KGB agent of Chechen descent. He grew up very close to his father and always dreamed of becoming a KGB agent when he grew up. He joined the FSB in the 1990s and by 2004, he and his father were part of a squad between Russia and Saudi Arabia called “the Four Horsemen.” The other two members were a Saudi military personnel named Khaled Al-Assad and a fellow FSB agent named Vladimir Makarov.
In 2007, Viktor Zakhaev captured a Saudi Arabian journalist who spoke out against the government of Saudi Arabia named Yasir Al-Fulani. He was taken in a car by him to a soccer stadium where Khaled Al-Assad was making a speech. Viktor tied Al-Fulani to a post where he was assassinated with a pistol that Imran Zakhaev handed to Al-Assad.
After the death of Al-Assad at the hands of Jonathan Price and John McTavish, Imran Zakhaev went into hiding. Despite this, the American and British forces formed a joint operation in order to stop both Zakhaevs. Viktor was suddenly ambushed by them while driving. In a state of confusion, he rammed his car into a watchtower that USMC sergeant Jackson Griggs and British Lt. John “Soap” McTavish were shooting from, causing it to collapse. Viktor survived the crash as did Griggs and Soap. The pair took off to chase him in the abandoned outskirts. After making a near-escape, he is eventually cornered at a five-story building by the combined forces of the Americans and the British. As he was cornered on the rooftop, he committed suicide by firing a pistol to his own head. However, because they didn’t want to admit Viktor’s weakness, the Russian government declared him dead in the car accident.