2/16/23
ARussian defense official has died after falling from a window of a building in St. Petersburg, according to local media reports.
The body of 58-year-old Marina Yankina, who headed the Financial Support Department of the Russian Defense Ministry in St. Petersburg’s Western Military District, was found on Wednesday morning, Fontanka reported.
The Western Military District is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces.
Police found her body under the windows of a high-rise building on Zamshina Street in the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg.
Fontanka reports that based on preliminary information, she lived in the building where she fell, and law enforcement agencies haven’t ruled out that she took her own life.
58-year-old Marina Yankina fell out of a window in St. Petersburg and died. She was the head of a financial department of the Defence Ministry in the region. https://t.co/MNP890K4Rn
— XSovietNews 🇺🇦 (@XSovietNews) February 16, 2023
The press service of the Western Military District confirmed that the woman worked with the department.
Russian Telegram channel Mashand other Russian media outlets reported that documents and other items belonging to Yankina were discovered on the 16th floor of the building.
Newsweek has been unable to independently verify those reports.
According to Fontanka, Yankina previously worked at the Federal Tax Service and served as deputy chairman of the Property Relations Committee of St. Petersburg.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, commented Thursday on Yankina’s death on Twitter.
“Marina Yankina, head of the financial department at Russian ministry of defense, was found dead. She fell out of a window,” he tweeted. “Her death is not the first among Russian high-ranking officials in the past year.”
Marina Yankina, head of the financial department at Russian ministry of defense, was found dead.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 16, 2023
She fell out of a window.
Her death is not the first among Russian high-ranking officials in the past year:https://t.co/bKfRyU86t9
Reports of Yankina’s death come just days after Major General Vladimir Makarov, who was recently fired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead outside of Moscow in a suspected suicide.
Makarov, former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was discovered dead on Monday weeks after being relieved of his duties.
Law enforcement officials reportedly told Russian state media outlet Tass that the 72-year-old took his own life.
Russian journalist Cheka-OGPU wrote on Telegram that Makarov formerly organized the “hunt” for oppositionists and journalists.
A number of prominent Russian figures have mysteriously died since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Last year, the former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute, Anatoly Gerashchenko, died after falling down “several flights of stairs.”
Russia’s Investigative Committee has yet to comment on reports of Yankina’s death.
Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Defense Ministry for comment.
“A number of prominent Russian figures have mysteriously died since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Last year, the former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute, Anatoly Gerashchenko, died after falling down “several flights of stairs.”
This is how a regular news provider describes this situation. We on here, on the other hand, have more freedom to call a spade a spade:. The russia is a giant fascist crime syndicate, a mafia organization, and as such it murders people all the time that have lost their usefulness or who would expose other mafiosi in some way or who are against the crimes being committed.
How sad, another suicide. Probably also has a bullet in the back of her head
She wanted the bullet to make sure her suicide attempt was effective. Doesn’t everyone shoot themselves in the back of the head to be sure?
That’s right, sir Oh, and usually two or three times.