A colonel who switched sides to join Putin has been killed in an alleged Ukrainian missile strike on a bakery. Colonel Alexey Poteleshchenko, 47, Minister of Emergencies in the Russia-annexed ...

TASS/. Alexey Poteleshchenko, emergencies minister of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), was killed in Saturday’s attack on a building housing a bakery in Lisichansk by the Ukrainian ...

Ten people were rescued from under the rubble. LPR Emergencies Minister Alexey Poteleshchenko and two municipal lawmakers - Artyom Trostyansky and Ivan Zhushma - were among those killed.