A RUSSIAN transport official dropped lifeless in his workplace on the identical day as Vladimir Putin’s transport minister apparently killed himself after being sacked.

Roman Starovoit, who had held the put up for lower than a yr, was dismissed by the tyrant on Monday – and hours later he reportedly took his personal life.

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On the identical day, Andrey Korneichuk, deputy head of the Russian Federal Highway Company’s Property Administration Division, died on the Transportation Ministry’s Moscow headquarters.

In line with Telegram channels with shut ties to Russian regulation enforcement, the 42-year-old official died in his workplace.

He’s stated to have stood up out of the blue, collapsed to the ground, and died.

Paramedics pronounced him lifeless on the scene.

Russian state media reported that Korneichuk died at his office, presumably from “acute coronary heart failure”.

Korneichuk reportedly died after information broke that Starovoit had been sacked from his put up.

There is no such thing as a indication the deaths are linked.

In the meantime, telegram channels with hyperlinks to the Russian safety forces reported Starovoit’s reason behind dying as suicide – claiming the minister was discovered lifeless with gunshot wounds.

The firearm, in accordance with Russian media, was an award pistol issued to him in 2023 by the Ministry of Inner Affairs.

Putin was “shocked” over the sudden dying of Starovoit.

However the Kremlin refused to be drawn on how Roman Starovoit had died, saying it should be left for the investigation.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated: “This can’t however shock regular individuals.

“Naturally, it shocked us too.”

Variations of Starovoit’s dying from official sources had been consistently altering, with preliminary studies saying his physique had been discovered at residence.

However doubts over his obvious suicide emerged after Russian authorities stated he was discovered contained in the automobile.

Russian cops then confirmed Starovoit’s physique was discovered having shot himself inside his black Tesla.

Press studies and images clearly confirmed a physique being faraway from lengthy grass close to the electrical automobile.

Sources near the Kremlin revealed he had left his ministry after morning conferences like nothing was unsuitable.

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The minister’s 25-year-old girlfriend Polina Korneeva was seen crying on the scene.

She was later pushed away in an official Aurus limousine after reportedly figuring out his physique.

Studies stated the final time Starovoit communicated along with his household was two days in the past.

Starovoit had divorced his spouse in 2021, the mom of his two kids, and began a relationship with Korneeva.

The lifeless ex-minister had a daughter 15, and son, 18.

In line with sources, on July 5, he arrived on the competitors to see his daughter, stayed there for lower than an hour, hugged her and left. 

He didn’t contact his household once more.

Starovoit’s passing is the most recent in a string of suspicious deaths of Russian officers, oligarchs and insiders since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine started.

Many have died in reported suicides, falls from home windows or beneath mysterious circumstances, fuelling hypothesis about rising instability behind the Kremlin’s partitions.