An employee of the press service of the Ministry of Defense with the rank of colonel died in the war in Ukraine

During the fighting in Ukraine, Colonel Vladimir Vasilyevich Ivanov died. his death VGTRK employee Evgeniy Poddubny was the first to report . Mediazona confirmed the death of the colonel using the registry of inheritance cases, the Getcontact application and leaks from Russian databases.

According to the register of inheritance cases, 41-year-old Vladimir Ivanov died on March 25, his death was officially confirmed five days later, on March 30, 2022. The notary who formalized the inheritance case indicated the residential address of the deceased - Moscow, st. Znamenka, 19. This is the main building of the Ministry of Defense, it is also .

The Ministry of Defense has not publicly confirmed the death of the press officer. The fact of the death of Colonel Vladimir Ivanov was first reported by the military correspondent of VGTRK Evgeny Poddubny, but he did not provide any information about the place of service of the deceased.

“Volodya loved service and was proud of the fact that he was a Russian officer, he was always a little embarrassed by his civilian education, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and entered the service after the military department. No one would dare call it a “jacket,” Poddubny wrote .

The VGTRK correspondent also published a photograph of the head of the administration of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Rostov, Andrei Kosenko, who carries a sign with a portrait of Colonel Ivanov at the “Immortal Regiment” rally on May 9.

The Ukrainian project “Peacemaker,” which collects data on Russian military personnel, mercenaries, and figures from the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, wrote about a press service employee with that name.

“Russian war criminal. Propagandist. An accomplice in information and propaganda campaigns and manipulations by the Russian Ministry of Defense to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine and the massacres of Syrian civilians. <…> Employee of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defense. He is directly involved in the conduct of the information war against Ukraine by the Russian Defense Ministry,” claimed “Peacemaker.”

According to the Getcontact application , the colonel’s phone number in users’ notebooks was recorded as “Vladimir Press Service of the Ministry of Defense, Volodya Ivanov, - Ivanov

Vladimir Vasilyevich, Ivanov Vladimir Press Office of the Russian Federation, V. V. (DIMC MO RF) Ivanov".

According to leaks from Russian databases, Vladimir Ivanov was born in Rostov-on-Don and served at the headquarters of the Southern Military District before being transferred to Moscow.

Mediazona, together with a team of volunteers and the BBC editorial staff, maintains a list of confirmed losses of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine. As of May 20, at least 2,622 people were killed in the conflict, including 60 officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel and above.

Corrected at 12:12 p.m. Initially, the news erroneously stated that the sign with Ivanov’s photograph at the “Immortal Regiment” rally was carried by Poddubny himself.