In a Telegram message, Vladimir Putin’s relative said he was wounded in the shoulder blade in a bombardment in Donetsk. His doctors said he will undergo an operation.
Dmitry Rogozinformer director of Roscosmos – agency in charge of the Russian civil space program – and close to Vladimir Putin affirmed this Thursday, December 22 to have been injured during a bombardment in Donetsk in the east of Ukraine.
“I have a wound, a 3×4 mm metal fragment entered above the right shoulder blade. There will be an operation. Several other people close to me were injured “wrote the former Russian deputy prime minister Thursday on his channel Telegram.
Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) doctors said they were providing medical assistance to Dmitry Rogozin, according to Tass, the Russian news agency. “His condition is satisfactory.“said the assistant of the injured. “According to the doctors’ conclusions, a mine fragment that lodged in his spine cannot be removed. Dmitry Rogozin refuses to be evacuated to medical facilities in other regions of Russia until the condition of the other injured is stabilized“, he added.
Location disclosed
Dmitry Rogozin was in the DPR, a Ukrainian region occupied by Russia since 2014 and officially annexed last September by Moscow, in order to dispense “military assistanceto the Russian army, explains the Tass agency. In his Telegram message, Rogozin said he was attending “a work meeting, in a restricted circle and in a calm atmosphere, on the return of one of our volunteer units“.
“We had been living in this hotel for a few months and in eight years the enemy had never bombed the place“, he continues. According to the Russian official,someone leaked“the location to”7:45 p.m.” and “multiple high precision strikesfollowed. Finally, he informs that an investigation is open to discover the identity of the attacker.
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Since his dismissal at the head of Roscosmos last July, a vagueness hangs over his activities. Some have speculated that Rogozin could hold some kind of leadership position in Russian-occupied areas in eastern Ukraine. However, this has not yet happened, so Rogozin declared himself the head of the volunteer inspection group “The Czar’s Wolves“.