Russia's Channel One reported Putin's father killed while breaking Leningrad siege

SOTA journalists drew attention to the message, writing about it on Twitter. In fact, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, as the decree awarding him the medal “For Battle Merit said, “received a severe shrapnel wound of the left shin and foot on November 17, 1941 at the Neva Patch.” His son Vladimir was born in 1952.

On Channel One’s website the crawling message has been corrected, the death of Vladimir Putin Sr. is no longer mentioned. The version of the report which aired later as part of the Vremya program got rid of the crawling message and added a voice-over narration about the serious wound.

The man we see in the screenshot is Ivan Melnikov, a former Nazi concentration camp prisoner; he has nothing to do with the statement about the “death” of Putin's father on the Neva Patch.