Dmitry Rogozin, former CEO of Roskosmos, said in a statement: telegraph channelIt was reported that Oleksandr Shemyakin, a former senior officer of the Special Operations Forces, who was fired by Ukrainian troops in Donetsk in December 2022, died on 6 February.
“Today Sasha Shemyakin passed away. Doctors did everything they could, ”she wrote.
Rogozin said that Alexander Shemyakin is his true friend and patriot.
He also published photographs he said were taken with Shemyakin on 21 December at a command and observation post a few kilometers from the contact line. Rogozin also noted that his friend was working with snipers from one of the volunteer units. He stressed that later in the evening, an artillery attack was carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on their location.
Rogozin added that Shemyakin was waiting for him in the emergency room of the Rostov military hospital while he was conscious, but even then doctors warned that the wound was serious.
As a result of the bombing of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on December 21, Dmitry Rogozin was wounded in the back and was hospitalized. According to his adviser, a hotel on the outskirts of the city, where a group of military advisers led by Rogozin lived, was hit last month.
On Monday, the RT channel Dmitry Rogozin return He was wounded and taken to the special military operations area.