Russian minister dies by suicide hours after getting fired by Putin, officials say
Former Russian Transportation Minister Roman Starovoit died on Monday just a few hours after the Russian president Vladimir Putin The authorities fired him from work, dedi the authorities said.
Rejected by Starovoit Putin Monday morning. The decree, which announced its dismissal, was published on the official Kremlin website and appointed his assistant Andrey Nikitin Acting Minister.
Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, asked for the reasons behind the dismissal of Starovoit by reporters, Dmitry Peskov rejected that it was due to the “lack of confidence”, but he did not give an alternative reason.
The Russian investigation committee said that Starovoid’s body was located in a car in Odintsovo, a suburb of Moscow. The committee said it was found with firearms. The conditions of death were investigated, but “the main theory suicide,” he said.
Another Ministry of Transportation official died on Monday: 42 -year -old Andrey Korneichuk, Federal Railway Transport Agency. The Russian state media reported that Korneichuk had probably died of “acute heart failure .. There is no indication that deaths are linked.
Before becoming a minister in May 2024, Starovoid was the governor of the Southern Russian Kursk region. Before Ukraine’s surprise attack, he was partially accused of security failures in the Russian region.
In a statement on Monday, the Russian media said that Starovoid played a role in an investigation on embezzling the state funds allocated to build fortifications in the region. RBC, a Russian independent business media organization, a state TV program, a state TV program, and Kommersant, the Russian business daily newspaper, reported that it was investigated. Kommersant said Starovoid was arrested.
According to the court in Moscow, Salafi Alexei Smirnov, who was previously assistant by Starovoit, was arrested in the same case as the governor, who was previously his assistant.
The dismissal came in the midst of a very daily deduction during the air journey in Russia. Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, 485 flights were canceled, 88 were directed and 1,900 delayed by the weekend and Monday.
The agency said that the cancellations depend on “external intervention” without giving any feature. However, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that more than 400 Ukrainian long -range strikes were seized for the same time.
The Ukrainian army said he had hit a chemical facility in Krasnozavodsk in the north of Moscow on Monday. He said that the plant is “producing pyrotechnical devices and ammunition, including thermobaric war headings for the HAHED type.
Another fatal night in Ukraine
According to Ukrainian officials, at least 12 civilians were killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine from 24 hours to mid -morning and more than 90 were injured.
At least 29 people, including three children aged 3, 7 and 11, were injured in a residential building, a kindergarten and a commercial area in Kharkiv in Northeast Ukraine at 23:00 on Sunday at 23:00 on Sunday.
According to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov, at least 17 more injured, including a young child, when the same city was shot again with drones again only five hours later.
Ukrainian Air Force, Russia, in the last 24 hours in Ukraine in the air from four surfaces to air and 101 HAHED type aircraft fire and 75 of the drones by hitting or squeezing, he said.
Ukraine’s Land Forces said on Monday that two of the recruitment offices were shot by the Russian plane last of the last similar events on Monday.
Land forces, six draft offices around the country, said that the Russian drones were attacked in more than a week.
In the statement, at least two people were killed in these attacks and more than a dozen injured.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is fighting in suicide thoughts or mental health issues. In the United States, call the National Suicide Prevention Life Loss on Phone 1-800-273-8255. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and the worldwide Befriendrs Association can also provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.
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