Mikhail Voitenko died, founder of the "sea bulletin"

In Thailand, at the age of 65 , the editor-in-chief of the Naval Bulletin edition Mikhail Voitenko, who in 2009 was forced to urgently leave Russia due to fears for his life. The preliminary cause of death is a heart attack, there is no official confirmation of the diagnosis and the details of the incident yet.

Voitenko is a native of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a professional sailor, one of the leading Russian sea transport experts. In 2009, he was the first to announce the disappearance of the Arctic Sea dry cargo with 15 crew members from Russia on board, which, as a number of media was written later, probably transported smuggled weapons from the sanction of the Russian authorities.

Within a month, the dry cargo was searched for law enforcement agencies of several countries, as a result, it, intact and without victims, was found 300 miles from the islands of the Green Cape. The Russian Foreign Ministry then said that the Arctic Sea ship was never lost and it was always known about its place. ”

Soon after, Mikhail Voitenko said that some influential people in Russia advised him to "bring down from the country", because "upstairs" were dissatisfied with the fact that he deduced the Arctic Sea dry cargo in the public field. So Voitenko was in Thailand.

The media note that already in exile, Voitenko signed the appeal "Putin must leave" and sharply condemned the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine.