During the fighting in Ukraine, Colonel Vladimir Vasilyevich Ivanov was killed. The first to report his death was an employee of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Evgeny Poddubny. Mediazona confirmed the death of the colonel using the registry of inheritance cases, the Getcontact application and leaks from Russian databases.
According to the registry 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 executed the inheritance case indicated the address of the deceased — Moscow, st. Znamenka, 19. This is the main building of the Ministry of Defense, it is also military unit 66524.
The Ministry of Defense has not publicly confirmed the death of the press officer. The death of Colonel Vladimir Ivanov was first reported by VGTRK war correspondent Evgeny Poddubny, while he did not provide any information about the place of service of the deceased.
“Volodya loved the service and was proud that he was a Russian officer, he was always a little shy civic education, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and entered the service after the military department. No one dares to call him a «jacket»,» wrote Poddubny.
The All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company correspondent also published a photo of Andrei Kosenko, head of the administration of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Rostov, who carries a sign with a portrait of Colonel Ivanov at the Immortal Regiment action on May 9.
The Ukrainian project Peacemaker wrote about a press officer with that name , which collects data on the Russian military, mercenaries and figures of the self-proclaimed DNR and LNR.
“Russian war criminal. Propagandist. An accomplice of information and propaganda campaigns and manipulations of the Russian Defense Ministry to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine, massacres of civilians in Syria. <…> Employee of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defense. He is directly involved in the conduct of the Russian Defense Ministry’s information war against Ukraine,” the “Peacemaker” claimed. -cite__image» alt=»1″ />Russia's losses in the war with Ukraine. Mediazones summary
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According to leaks from Russian databases, Vladimir Ivanov was born in Rostov-on-Don and served in the headquarters before being transferred to Moscow of the Southern Military District.
Mediazona, together with a team of volunteers and the editors of the BBC, 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. Initially, the news was wrong it was alleged that Poddubny himself carried a sign with a photograph of Ivanov at the Immortal Regiment action.