The former head of Roskosmos, the head of the Tsarskie Wolves military advisers group, Dmitry Rogozin, was injured when Ukrainian armed forces shelled a hotel in the Leninsky district of Donetsk.
"Wounded in the back.
I will live, - Rogozin told RT.
- A metal fragment measuring 3 × 4 mm entered above the right shoulder blade.
An operation is coming.
A few other people close to me were hurt."
According to him, during the incident, a working meeting was held, in a narrow circle and in a calm atmosphere after returning from one of the volunteer units: “Someone leaked information - and around 19:45 there were several precision hits, including in the place where we were directly located.
They beat me with a caliber of 120 or 155 mm.
The investigation will determine where and who.
According to him, he and other military advisers have been living in this hotel for the past months, while in eight years the enemy has never shelled this place.
Rogozin believes that the purpose of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, most likely, was the chairman of the government of the DPR, Vitaly Khotsenko.
According to TASS, his press secretary Mina Akhverdiyeva, despite the injury, everything is fine with the prime minister of the DPR, he refused hospitalization.
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Also, State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlev, who was in the hotel, believes that the fire was launched on a tip: “This is the meanest thing, incomprehensible to me.”
He also stressed that neither he nor Rogozin were going to leave Donbass, TASS reports.
As Dmitry Rogozin’s assistant said in an interview with RT, the head of the Tsar’s Wolves group of military advisers is in one of the medical facilities of the DPR, he, like the rest of the victims, has received the necessary medical care, their condition is satisfactory: “The possibility of their transportation to Rostov-on- Don".
As a result of the shelling, two people were killed, Denis Pushilin, the acting head of the DPR, said on the air of Solovyov LIVE.
He also called the condition of Khotsenko and Rogozin satisfactory.
Summary of the DPR
As a result of the shelling of the Donetsk People's Republic by the Ukrainian military over the past 24 hours, two civilians were killed, ten more were injured, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported.
As the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine added, in total over the past day, the territory of the republic was shelled 62 times by the Ukrainian military, who fired 293 units of various ammunition, including from MLRS.
“25 housing constructions were damaged in the Kievsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, the Kalininsky and Nikitovsky districts of Gorlovka, Yelenovka, as well as 11 civilian infrastructure facilities,” the official information summary of the DPR JCCC says.
Kyiv transfers special forces to Artyomovsk
The Kyiv regime is reinforcing its grouping in the Artyomovsk region with special units, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said, citing intelligence data.
“In order to hold the settlement, an additional transfer of Ukrainian SOF servicemen was noted,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
He noted that the tasks of the units also include the suppression of panic and cases of desertion in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier, the People's Militia of the LPR noted that the mobilized Ukrainian servicemen were leaving their positions.
Marochko also said that the Ukrainian command sent additional orders to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian structures in order to hide the real losses of Ukrainian troops in the zone of active hostilities.
“First of all, it is forbidden to transport corpses during daylight hours and mark the cargo.
If possible, use civilian vehicles with a closed trailer type.
Make forced stops away from large settlements, ”TASS quotes him.
At the same time, according to him, any photo and video filming is prohibited in medical institutions and morgues without an official request and permission from law enforcement agencies, and in military registration and enlistment offices, when relatives are informed about the death of their loved ones, they are warned of responsibility for disseminating information that harms the Armed Forces of Ukraine.