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Dmitry Rogozin is a Russian politician, known for his ardent defense of Russia’s national interests.
In the 90’s Rogozin fought in the conflicts in Moldova and Yugoslavia. He served under the Putin administration as Russia’s ambassador to NATO, where he became infamous for his passionate rhetoric and heated and sarcastic verbal and social media sparring with then NATO head Anders Fogh Rassmussen, often right in the middle of NATO-Russian council sessions.
He also served as deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry and head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos.
In early 2022, along with dozens of Russian government officials and officials, he volunteered to join the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian civil conflict. He has since led the “Tsar Wolves”, a volunteer unit which consists of experienced military advisers and experts with rich combat experience. Its main task is military-technical support for the military units of the DPR and LPR.
Rogozin was gravely wounded in Donetsk on December 21, 2023 in a salvo of precision artillery strikes by the Kiev regime, an obvious targeted assassination attack, on the hotel where he was briefly staying, in the midst of a dinner celebrating his 59th birthday. The strike also killed two friends and colleagues, with several others wounded, including the prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vitaly Khotsenko.
The former space boss suffered a concussion and was wounded in the right shoulder with shrapnel which landed “a millimeter” away from his spine. The shrapnel removed from his back in a delicate operation by surgeons proved to be from a NATO 155mm shell fired from a French Caesar Howitzer.
Rogozin later sent a letter along with the shrapnel fragment removed from his own spine to the French envoy Pierre Levy in Moscow, to be passed on to the French President Emmanuel Macron. He also posted the contents of the message to Macron on social media. It reads, Template:Wquotebox-float The French foreign ministry had no comment on the letter and returned shell fragment.
Rogozin vowed to return to the frontline as soon as his injuries allowed.