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According to the reports, Russia’s Minister of Transportation committed suicide only a few hours after being fired by President Vladimir Putin, according to the country’s state news agency, which cited the National Research Committee. According to the reports, a second senior official of the Ministry of Transportation died shortly after, for reasons that remain without being clear.

Roman Starovoy shot fatally in his car in Odintsovo, a city west of Moscow, according to a statement from the committee that was reported by the Tass news agency in Russia.

“The circumstances of the incident are being established,” Tass said the Investigation Committee. “The main hypothesis is suicide.”

Forbes Russia reported that Starovoy, 53, died “presumably during the night between Saturday and Sunday”, citing an anonymous source near state researchers. It was not possible to explain the discrepancy between the death times reported by Forbes and the official media of the Russian media.

Putin had fired Starvoy only a few hours before, according to a decree published by the Kremlin. No official reason was given, but ongoing Ukrainian drone attacks In Russia it caused chaos for air traffic in the country during the weekend, which caused the cancellation of hundreds of varied flights and passengers.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have intercepted at least 120 drones in 10 different regions of the country between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, the authorities in Ukraine said on Monday that at least 11 civilians were killed and more than 80 wounded, including seven children, in Russian unmanned aircraft attacks. Russia has intensified its attacks with missiles and drones, including many that hit civil areas, in recent days.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that only last week, Russia had launched around 1,270 drones, 39 missiles and almost 1,000 sliding pumps in Ukraine.

Starovoy became Russia’s Minister of Transportation in 2024, before he was the governor of the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine.

According to the reports, another official “stood sharply … and fell dead”

Shortly after Starovoy’s death was reported by the Russian media, a lower rank official whose work fell within the mandate of the Ministry of Transportation, Andrei Korneichuk, 42, died suddenly during a meeting.

In his office in eastern Moscow, Korneichuk, who was the deputy director of the Land Funds of the Federal Highway Agency, “rose abruptly during a meeting and fell dead,” according to the media, which is believed to be close.

“The doctors could not help him,” Shot added. The Russian newspaper Independiente Novaya Gazeta said that at least two other media linked to the Russian government had informed the same basic details.

It was determined that the preliminary cause of death was a cardiac arrest, according to the media cited by the Gazeta.

The two deaths occur a few days after that of the vice president of the Russian state oil company Transneft.

Andrei Badalov’s body, 62, was found “under the window of a house” in western Moscow on Friday, according to officials responsible for enforcing the law. The state news agency said he had written a farewell message to his wife.

The cases are only the last in a chain of Russians high profile and powerful who die Suddenly, often in apparent windows or other incidents.

Ivan Kashchenko contributed to this report.

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