Russia’s Senior Defense official was discovered dead after plunging from a tower block’s high window.
A bystander found 58-year-old Marina Yankina at the front door of a home on Zamshina Street in St. Petersburg. She died after falling about 160 feet.
Yankina had a significant role in financing Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. She oversaw the Ministry of Defense’s Financial Assistance Division for the Western Military District, which played a crucial role in the dictator’s invasion. Her death was verified by the Russian Investigative Committee, which is also investigating how she fell.
Yankina formerly worked for the Federal Tax Service and held the position of Vice Chairman of the Property Relations Committee of St. Petersburg before joining the Western Military area.
According to sources, suicide is suspected. However, this is frequently asserted before any inquiry is completed in such situations.
She is said to have played a key role in efforts to increase money for the conflict that Putin started and that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
According to early claims, she did not reside in the building.
She is one of several Russians who have died in falls during Putin’s lengthy leadership.
Maj. Gen. Vladimir Makarov, 72, of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, died last week in what appears to have been a suicide in a Moscow suburb.
Unverified sources said that after being fired by Putin in January, the general had experienced severe depression.
Col. Vadim Boiko, 44, a deputy head of the Makarov Pacific Higher Naval Academy in Vladivostok, was discovered dead in November from numerous gunshot wounds in what authorities have deemed a suicide.
Boiko, who assisted in some of Putin’s mobilization efforts, reportedly set himself up to be blamed for some of the issues that plagued the invasion of Ukraine and killed himself by shooting into his chest five times in the commander’s office.