A high-ranking Russian defense official in the war against Ukraine was found dead Wednesday after falling from a 16th-floor window in an apartment building.
Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby at the entrance of a high-rise on Zamshina Street in St Petersburg, Russian news Telegram channel Mash reported.
She is believed to have fallen 160 feet to her death. Her personal belongings and documents were found on a 16th-floor balcony in the building.
[This one appears to be a legit suicide rather than a convenient exit of a Putin critic or political opponent. Yankina was not a dissident, but Russian defense officials are likely to become targets eventually for Vladimir Putin’s failing war in Ukraine. Yankina may have decided to check out early, as she apparently alerted her husband just prior to her fall to call police to secure her apartment and her body. — Ed]
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