Major and press officer of the Russian Ministry of Defense Evgeniy Polovodov died during shelling of Kremennaya in the occupied part of the Lugansk region of Ukraine, Rossiya-1 reports .
“Today, reporters Artem Yundas and Denis Shum were with tankers west of Kremennaya, accompanied by an officer from the press service of the Ministry of Defense, Yevgeny Polovodov. Major Polovodov died. Denis Shum is now in a military hospital with a shrapnel wound. Artem Yundas found the strength, despite the shell shock, to describe the events of that day,” the Russian state TV channel reports.
It is noted that Polovodov was a senior press officer of the West group of troops.
According to Kommersant, the deceased was 33 years old; since 2015, he served as an officer in the information support unit in Voronezh, and in 2021 he was in Syria.