Dmitry Rogozinwhich he was wounded five days ago in Donetsk, he underwent surgery at a Moscow hospital to remove splinters and is currently recoveringRussian news agencies said, citing his aide.
Former Deputy Prime Minister and head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin was injured on December 21 as a result of artillery attack on the hotel-restaurant “Shesh-besh” on the outskirts of Donetsk.
About where Rogozin’s fragment was taken, the agencies do not specify yet. Rogozin himself said the day before that a fragment lodged in a cervical vertebra.
After doctors in Donetsk didn’t bother removing the splinter due to its proximity to the spine, was transported to Moscowwhere to continue your treatment.
Immediately after the bombing of the restaurant, the publication “Baza” reported that, according to its information, Rogozin received a shrapnel wound in the soft tissues of the head, a penetrating shrapnel wound in the buttock and a penetrating shrapnel wound in the left thigh . Then other sources close to Rogozin spoke of a shrapnel wound “above the shoulder blade.”
Rogozin’s adjutant Mikhail Bridasov was killed during a bombing raid on December 21 and three other people were injured.
Rogozin leads a group of military advisers in occupied Donbass known as the “Tsarski Wolves”.
Rogozin, 58, has been at the helm of Roscosmos for just over four years, taking up his post at the end of May 2018. He is a journalist by training. He was sacked from his post in the summer of this year after a series of cutting remarks, albeit in the official line of the Kremlin. In June Rogozin made an indirect threat to the Bulgarians with Sarmat nuclear missile.
