Russian official who drove over mine in Belgorod Oblast dies

Saturday, 16 December 2023, 09:21

Igor Borodayenko, the deputy head of Krasnoyaruzhsky District Administration, who was driving a car that drove over a Russian mine, has died in Belgorod Oblast.

Source: Vyacheslav Gladkov, Governor of Belgorod Oblast  

Quote from Gladkov: "At night, Igor [Borodayenko], the man who was injured by driving over a mine in Krasnoyaruzhsky District, had died in hospital.

Doctors fought to save his life to the last."

Background: On 13 December, two officials from the Krasnoyaruzhsky District of Russia’s Belgorod Oblast bordering Ukraine were injured after their vehicle drove over a landmine planted by the Russian military. The officials were travelling in a UAZ Patriot (a mid-size body-on-frame SUV produced by the UAZ division of SeverstalAvto in Ulyanovsk, Russia).

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