Tass, the Russian news agency, says doctors from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) treated the former deputy prime minister. “His condition is satisfactory,” said an aide to Rogozin. “According to the doctors’ conclusions, a mine fragment that lodged in his spine cannot be removed. He refuses to be evacuated to medical facilities in other regions of Russia until the condition of the other injured is stabilized,” he added.
In his Telegram publication, Dmitry Rogozin details the circumstances of the attack: “I was attending a work meeting, in a small circle and in a calm atmosphere, on the return of one of our volunteer units”, he specifies. he. “We had been living in this hotel for a few months and in eight years the enemy had never bombed the place,” he continues.
According to him, “someone allegedly leaked information” regarding the meeting place and “several high precision strikes” then hit the target.
An investigation has been opened to find out the identity of the attacker.
According to TASS, since his dismissal at the head of Roscosmos (agency in charge of the Russian civil space program), Dmitri Rogozine, would have become the head of a group of military advisers nicknamed “The wolves of the tsar”.