During the demining of the road to Alyoshki, where the humanitarian convoy is going today, a sapper, a sergeant of the 98th Guards Airborne Division, Andrei Vedernikov, was killed. The information was published by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed the information of the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights, Yana Lantratova, about the death of a Russian serviceman while clearing a road in Alyoshki, Kherson region," the report said.
According to the ministry, on October 28, during engineering reconnaissance and road cleaning to ensure the safety of the humanitarian convoy's travel routes to Alyoshki, a Russian serviceman was mortally wounded as a result of an explosive device installed by a Ukrainian UAV with a Doppler sensor triggered when approaching him during mine clearance.