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The previous commander-in-chief of Russia’s floor forces died in a navy hospital earlier this week—the second bigwig within the nation’s navy industrial advanced to die in simply two days.
Alexei Maslov, a retired military basic, was serving as a particular consultant of military-technical cooperation for Uralvagonzavod, Russia’s largest tank producer, when he died “unexpectedly” final Saturday, the corporate introduced in a assertion.
No explanation for demise was given.
Maslov, who was appointed as Russia’s navy consultant to NATO in 2008, died simply two days after Vladimir Putin abruptly canceled his first go to to Uralvagonzavod since 2019.
The Russian chief was anticipated to fly into Yekaterinburg final week earlier than heading to Nizhny Tagil to fulfill with staffers on the tank manufacturing unit, the place employees have been enduring 12-hour days, six days every week resulting from fulfill orders for the conflict towards Ukraine.
Native authorities in Yekaterinburg went to ridiculous lengths for his impending go to, reportedly banning drivers of native public transportation from letting passengers out wherever close to Putin’s motorcade. Authorities in Nizhny Tagil reportedly forbid scholar drivers from utilizing the streets.
However then Putin’s go to was abruptly canceled on the final minute, native media reported.
Maslov’s demise got here only a day after Alexander Buzakov, the director basic of Admiralty Shipyards, died instantly and “tragically” from unknown causes.
Buzakov, who St. Petersburg Gov. Alexander Beglov credited with ensuring Russia’s navy was “ready for confrontation with the West,” had beforehand advised Russian state media the shipyard was getting ready to satisfy a Protection Ministry order for diesel-powered submarines able to launching Kalibr cruise missiles—the identical ones Moscow has been utilizing for months to launch assaults on Ukraine.