Russian transport official drops dead in office on same day as Putin’s sacked minister dies in apparent suicide

A RUSSIAN transport official dropped lifeless in his workplace on the identical day as Vladimir Putin’s transport minister apparently killed himself after being sacked.

Roman Starovoit, who had held the publish for lower than a 12 months, was dismissed by the tyrant on Monday – and hours later he reportedly took his own life.

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On the identical day, Andrey Korneichuk, deputy head of the Russian Federal Highway Company’s Property Administration Division, died on the Transportation Ministry’s Moscow headquarters.

In response to Telegram channels with shut ties to Russian legislation enforcement, the 42-year-old official died in his workplace.

He’s mentioned to have stood up instantly, collapsed to the ground, and died.

Paramedics pronounced him lifeless on the scene.

Russian state media reported that Korneichuk died at his office, probably from “acute coronary heart failure”.

Korneichuk reportedly died after information broke that Starovoit had been sacked from his publish.

There isn’t any indication the deaths are linked.

In the meantime, telegram channels with hyperlinks to the Russian safety forces reported Starovoit’s reason for dying as suicide – claiming the minister was discovered lifeless with gunshot wounds.

The firearm, in response to Russian media, was an award pistol issued to him in 2023 by the Ministry of Inside Affairs.

Putin was “shocked” over the sudden dying of Starovoit.

However the Kremlin refused to be drawn on how Roman Starovoit had died, saying it have to be left for the investigation.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned: “This can’t however shock regular individuals.

“Naturally, it shocked us too.”

Variations of Starovoit’s dying from official sources have been consistently altering, with preliminary stories saying his physique had been discovered at dwelling.

However doubts over his apparent suicide emerged after Russian authorities mentioned he was discovered contained in the automobile.

Russian cops then confirmed Starovoit’s physique was discovered having shot himself inside his black Tesla.

Press stories and images clearly confirmed a physique being faraway from lengthy grass close to the electrical automobile.

Sources near the Kremlin revealed he had left his ministry after morning conferences like nothing was mistaken.

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The minister’s 25-year-old girlfriend Polina Korneeva was seen crying on the scene.

She was later pushed away in an official Aurus limousine after reportedly figuring out his physique.

Experiences mentioned the final time Starovoit communicated together with his household was two days in the past.

Starovoit had divorced his spouse in 2021, the mom of his two kids, and began a relationship with Korneeva.

The lifeless ex-minister had a daughter 15, and son, 18.

In response to sources, on July 5, he arrived on the competitors to see his daughter, stayed there for lower than an hour, hugged her and left. 

He didn’t contact his household once more.

Starovoit’s passing is the most recent in a string of suspicious deaths of Russian officers, oligarchs and insiders since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine started.

Many have died in reported suicides, falls from home windows or beneath mysterious circumstances, fuelling hypothesis about rising instability behind the Kremlin’s partitions.