Once the journalist opened the topic of arms smuggling from the Russian Federation. After that, Mikhail Voitenko began to receive threats and was forced to emigrate.
Famous Russian journalist Mikhail Voitenko, who fled the Russian Federation due to fear for his life, died in Thailand at the age of 65. Radio Liberty reports this.
Doctors at a hospital in Chonburi province on Thailand’s east coast, where Voitenko lived in recent years, reported that the cause of death of the media personality was a sudden heart attack. The man’s death was instantaneous. There are no other details yet about the journalist’s death.
It is known that Voitenko’s relatives have not been able to reach him since December 29. Thai police opened his apartment at the request of his relatives on January 1 and found his body.
Who is Mikhail Voitenko?
Mikhail Voitenko, editor-in-chief of the Maritime Bulletin publication, had to urgently leave Russia in 2009 due to fears for his life. He is a professional sailor and one of the leading Russian experts in maritime transport.
In 2009, Voitenko was the first to report the disappearance of the Arctic Sea cargo ship from Russia carrying 15 Russian crew members; This ship, some media outlets later wrote, was probably carrying smuggled weapons from the Russian Federation to another country. . For a month, the cargo ship was searched by law enforcement agencies of various countries, as a result of which it was found 300 miles from the Cape Verde Islands. The Russian Foreign Ministry later stated that the Arctic Sea ship “was never lost and its location was always known.”
As the British newspaper The Times wrote at the time, based on knowledgeable sources in Russia and Israel, the Arctic Sea cargo ship was carrying weapons to Iran and was stopped by Mossad. According to the official version, the ship was carrying timber and was captured by pirates, who then demanded a ransom but was neutralized. However, information came from Tel Aviv and Moscow that there were C-300 missile systems in warehouses in the Arctic Sea. Allegedly, they were loaded here during repairs in the port of Kaliningrad, at the initiative of retired military personnel with connections to the criminal world.
Shortly after the incident on the ship, Mikhail Voitenko reported that some influential people in Russia advised him to “get out of the country” because they were not happy that “those at the top” had raised the issue of the Arctic Sea cargo ship. to public space. This is how Voitenko came to Thailand.
Media note that Voitenko signed the “Putin must go” call while in exile and spoke out against the actions of Russian authorities in Ukraine in 2014.
Let us recall that journalist Alexander Rybin died mysteriously in Russia. Before that, he criticized the “development” of occupied Mariupol.
In the Russian Federation in October 2023 Famous Russian propagandist passed away Stanislav Andreev, nicknamed “Uncle Slava”. He mocked Ukrainian history and the Ukrainian language and insisted that Ukrainians and Russians were “one people.”
Source: Focus
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