The former head of Roskosmos was discharged from the hospital after surgery. As Rogozin said in a conversation with RT, he plans to return to the front in mid-January at the head of a group of military advisers, “The Wolves of the Tsar.”
The former head of the state agency also said that during the attack on the Shesh-Besh hotel in Donetsk in December, two officers from the Tsarskie Wolves detachment, Mikhail Bridasov and Vladimir Huseynov, were killed.
He added that four other members of his platoon of military advisers were also seriously injured. Rogozin himself was wounded.
On January 4, he announced on his Telegram channel that he had sent the fragment extracted from it to Pierre Levy, the French Ambassador to Russia. Rogozin asked the diplomat to deliver the piece to the French president.
“The piece cut from my spine by surgeons, please pass it on to Emmanuel Macron. Also tell him that no one can escape responsibility for the war crimes committed by France, the USA, the UK, Germany and other NATO countries in Donbass,” it said.
He added that shrapnel “from the French Caesar howitzer bullet” pierced his right shoulder and lodged in his fifth cervical vertebra, killing or paralyzing him within a millimeter. Shell also “killed two of his young friends.”
On December 21, the former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin celebrated his birthday in the restaurant of the Shesh-besh Hotel in Donetsk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces opened cannon fire on the building where the politicians and guests were staying.
“Apparently, they noticed [украинские] the scouts on the ground worked. Because they shot a building that had not been fired for eight and a half years with direct fire. 155 mm – NATO caliber. Probably from the Caesar self-propelled unit of the French company Nexter. State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlev, who was present at the event, wrote on his Telegram channel, “A targeted attack.”
In addition to him, DPR Prime Minister Vitaly Khotsenko arrived at the meeting “literally 10 minutes before the explosion.”
Zhuravlev suggested that “this is a kind of signal for the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
According to preliminary data, as a result of the shelling, the guard of the DPR Prime Minister Khotsenko and deputy Rogozin Mikhail Bridasov was killed. Dmitry Rogozin himself received a shrapnel wound in the back. According to Baza, the former head of Roscosmos “He received a shrapnel wound to the soft tissues of his head, a penetrating shrapnel wound to his hip, and also a penetrating shrapnel wound to his left thigh.”
Zhuravlev’s assistant, Tatyana Kalegina, also told the Mash Telegram channel that “there are very few people in the restaurant, there is a buffet table because there is no banquet.”
“There was Dmitry Olegovich and his associates, who were directly nearby. This is the group of Tsarskie Wolves living in this hotel,” he said.
He also denied the information that Rogozin was injured in the hip – according to him, this version is “garbage” and “sabotage for a red word.” “Officially: a 1 cm splinter wound did not reach the spine,” Kalegina stressed.
A former official told military reporter Alexander Kots that a piece had entered his right shoulder blade and lodged in a vertebra. The military commissioner also quoted Rogozin’s words on his Telegram channel that “six or seven arrivals for sure” had taken place.