A famous Russian space scientist passed away after supposedly being poisoned with mushrooms.
Professor Vitaly Melnikov was in charge of the department that makes rockets and spaceships at RSC Energia, which is the top company in Moscow for building spacecraft.
The person who was 77 years old had been sick for more than two weeks because of severe poisoning. Unfortunately, the doctors could not save him.
According to a news outlet in Moscow, it is believed that the person was poisoned by mushrooms that cannot be eaten.
However, it is not known or disclosed how he was supposedly poisoned.
RSC Energia is the biggest company in Russia in its field and the top business in the space industry.
It is in charge of everything related to people going into space and leads Russia’s work for the International Space Station.
Mr Melnikov previously held a position as the head researcher at TsNIIMASH, a part of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
He wrote 291 scientific articles and was thought of as one of the most respected space scientists. He also collaborated with NASA and taught at a university in Russia.
This happened a few weeks after Putin’s hopes were ruined when a Russian spaceship sent to study the moon crashed into its surface because it lost control.
And on Friday, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) seemed to have discovered the exact location where the moon lander crashed down.
Mr Melnikov’s death is one of several senior Russian figures who have died in strange or suspicious ways since President Vladimir Putin started his conflict with Ukraine.
Reports from Moscow say that Professor Vitaly Melnikov, a top Russian space scientist, has died at the age of 77. The cause of his death is believed to be mushroom poisoning.
In the past few weeks, a Russian general who knew important information about the dictator’s expensive palace died unexpectedly in prison, just as he could have been released. Additionally, a military leader who briefly commanded the invasion of Ukraine also passed away at the age of 58.
Earlier this year, a very wealthy Russian member of parliament named Nikolay Bortsov, who was 77 years old and had connections to the UK, was discovered dead on the same day as another politician named Dzhasharbek Uzdenov, who was 56 years old.
A lot of people linked to Putin have died in unusual ways. Some fell from windows, some were shot randomly, some died in helicopter accidents, and others had mysterious “suicides”.
A Russian rich person died last year supposedly after ‘shamans’ gave him toad venom to help with his hangover. However, his cause of death was officially recorded as a heart attack.
The leader of a group of paid soldiers called the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is 62 years old, was one of 10 people who died in a plane accident. His right-hand man and co-founder, Dmitry Utkin, who is 53 years old, also died in the accident.
But many people believe and talk about the idea that Prigozhin may not have actually been on the plane.
More people started believing the rumours when the wife of a man who looked like him was seen at the warlord’s tomb the day after his funeral.
On Thursday, a creepy video from Prigozhin appeared, appearing to send a message to his soldiers from beyond the afterlife.
The Kremlin first said that the idea of Prigozhin being murdered was completely false, but later admitted that the plane crash might have been done on purpose. However, the Russian government has not said that Putin had any part in Prigozhin’s death.
In a different place, the situation of the harmful mushroom lunch incident is still making people very interested. A woman made a meal using poisonous mushrooms for her husband’s parents, causing the death of three people and making one person very sick.