Starovoyt served as transport minister for a year and previously was the governor of the border Kursk region, where Ukraine had launched an incursion.
“It cannot not shock normal people. And of course it shocked us too,“ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Russian news agencies.
Russian media had speculated that Starovoyt was meant to be investigated for corruption in the Kursk region. His successor was arrested this spring for embezzling funds earmarked to beef up fortifications in the region.
Neither Nikitin or the speaker of Russia’s parliament Vyacheslav Volodin mentioned Starovoyt’s suspected suicide in their opening speeches in the Duma.
His predecessor was fired after hundreds of flights were cancelled across Russia last weekend during Kyiv’s large-scale drone offensive.
Starovoyt’s death came as Russia has cracked down on military and some civilian officials during the Ukraine offensive, with the Kremlin tightly controlling the country’s ruling class. – AFP
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