A retired senior Russian military commander has died at his home in Moscow, Russian media reported on Wednesday, just months after he was shot by a taxi driver during an altercation in the capital.
Russian state news agency, Tass, reported that Dmitry Dreval, a retired major general who had served as the deputy head for the Russian military's logistics, had died from "acute heart failure" on Tuesday in Moscow, citing sources in the medical sector.
The news agency reported that the retired major general had "felt unwell" before an ambulance arrived at the scene, but he was unable to be revived. Moscow-based daily newspaper, Moskovskij Komsomolets, reported that the 68-year-old fell ill at his apartment and his wife had called the emergency services.
"There are no bodily injuries, the cause of death is natural, he died in front of his relatives at home," an unnamed source told Russian outlet RBC.
Dreval was shot in the leg back in May during an argument with a taxi driver, Russian and Ukrainian media reported at the time.
The former commander had been decorated by Russian authorities, including receiving the Order "For Military Merit," which is bestowed for exemplary service in Russia.
Several other prominent former Russian commanders have died since the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine, although in many cases, there is no indication that their deaths were linked with the conflict.
In August 2023, the former commander of Russia's forces in Ukraine died in Moscow after a "prolonged illness," a Russian official said. Colonel General Gennady Zhidko had briefly headed Moscow's forces in Ukraine, as well as serving as head of the country's Eastern Military District.
He had led Russia's war effort in Ukraine for a few months in 2022 before he was replaced by General Sergei Surovikin, dubbed "General Armageddon," in the fall of that year. At the time, Ukraine had launched a highly successful counteroffensive that had peeled back Russian control established in the initial weeks of the full-scale invasion.
In the same week, former General Gennady Lopyrev died in a penal colony in the central Russian region of Ryazan, where he was serving a decade-long sentence for bribery, charges which he had consistently denied. Lopyrev was reportedly in change of the construction and security arrangements for Russian President Vladimir Putin's lavish Black Sea resort near the Krasnodar city of Sochi.
General Alexei Maslov, the former commander of Russia's ground forces and Moscow's military envoy to NATO, died in Moscow in late 2022.
He had been working with Russian tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod, and the company announced on December 25 that the former military official had died "suddenly" at a hospital in Moscow. Announcing Maslov's death in a brief statement, the company did not give a cause of death.
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