Yevgeny Zinichev, a former KGB officer and bodyguard of Putin, died ‘trying to save life of cameraman’
Russia’s emergencies minister has died during a training exercise in the Arctic Circle city of Norilsk, Russian state media have reported.
Yevgeny Zinichev, a member of the influential security council and minister of emergency situations since 2018, died “while saving a person’s life in the course of an interdepartmental exercise … in the Arctic zone,” the ministry of emergency situations confirmed in a statement.