Aleksey Aleksandrovich Poteleshchenko (; ; 3 December 1976 – 3 February 2024) was a Ukrainian Russian collaborationist military officer and politician. He served as Minister of Emergency Situations of the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

from 2023 to 2024. Poteleshchenko died in

Lysychansk Lysychansk ( , ; , ; , ) is a city in Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is located on the high right bank of the Donets River, approximately from the administrative center of the oblast, Luhansk. It faces Sievierodonet ...

during a Ukrainian shelling, at the age of 47.

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