A former commander of Russian floor forces with shut ties to Ukraine died ‘abruptly’ the day after Vladimir Putin abruptly cancelled a visit to the tank enterprise the place he labored as a world gross sales ambassador.
Alexei Maslov, 69, handed away on Christmas Day in a Moscow navy hospital, the Uralvagonzavod plant introduced.
From 2008 he has acted as Russia’s chief navy consultant to NATO, RBC reported.
Maslov’s loss follows the ‘sudden loss of life’ of Alexander Buzakov, 65, basic director of Admiralty Shipyards in St Petersburg, answerable for constructing new submarines.
The FSB safety service had shaped an ‘investigative group’ into the 2 deaths, reported Telegram channel Redacted quantity 6.
Pictured left: Common Alexei Maslov, former Commander-in-Chief of Russian Land Forces visiting a US navy base in March 2005
Pictured: Common Alexei Maslov, first from the left, meets Vladimir Putin in 2004
Pictured: Alexander Buzakov, head of Russian Admiralty Shipyards, died aged 65
Buzakov had been wholesome the day earlier than he died, and ‘nothing had been heard about Maslov’s well being issues’ earlier than he died, mentioned the channel.
Maslov had been commander-in-chief of Russian floor forces between 2004 and 2008.
At NATO in Brussels he labored alongside Dmitry Rogozin, an official near Putin who was abruptly eliminated in the summertime as head of the Russian House Company, Roscosmos.
Putin had been on account of fly to the Uralvagonzavod plant in Nizhny Tagil – which has been criticised by the Kremlin for failing to provide ample new tanks for the warfare in Ukraine.
Common Alexei Maslov, 69, handed away on Christmas Day in a Moscow navy hospital, the Uralvagonzavod plant introduced
Common Alexei Maslov, 69, had been commander-in-chief of Russian floor forces between 2004 and 2008, and later served because the nation’s chief navy consultant to NATO in Brussels
Nevertheless, the Russian president aborted the Christmas Eve journey ‘on the final minute’ with no rationalization, in response to native stories.
In recent times Maslov labored as a ‘particular consultant of Uralvagonzavod for military-technical cooperation’, the corporate wrote on Telegram.
Rogozin – recovering in hospital from damage in a Ukrainian shell assault final week – praised Maslov as ‘a really skilled navy man, a demanding commander, and particular person’.
Buzakov’s loss of life was described as ‘sudden, premature and tragic’.
A regional politician and sausage tycoon generally known as Russia’s top-earning elected consultant Pavel Antov, 65, fell to his loss of life from a window in an Indian lodge in one other case that has aroused suspicion.
He had labelled Russian missile strikes on Kyiv as ‘terror’ – earlier than abruptly withdrawing his remark.
‘Nothing had been heard about Maslov’s well being issues’ earlier than he died, mentioned Telegram channel Redacted quantity 6
Alexander Buzakov, 65, basic director of Admiralty Shipyards in St Petersburg, answerable for constructing new submarines, died abruptly on Christmas Eve
A sequence of latest large explosions and fires at strategic areas have additionally raised suspicion of ‘sabotage’ in opposition to Putin’s regime.
Anti-war channel Gorod Glypov, with greater than 240,000 subscribers, described the deaths as ‘incomprehensible’.
It claimed a brutal means of ‘cleaning’ to wipe out undesirable individuals was underway.
Russia was ‘in a season of unintentional window falls, sudden deaths and ‘common’ fires’, it acknowledged sarcastically.
The press service at Uralvagonzavod – Russia’s largest tank plant – mentioned Maslov has risen from ‘platoon commander to commander-in-chief of floor forces’.
He ‘remained trustworthy to the trigger and the Fatherland till the final day’.
He had studied in Ukrainian metropolis Kharkiv, and was later stationed within the Carpathian Mountains.
