Some news stories come across the wire and make you question the true story behind all of the headlines.
One of those stories is out now, as reports are that one of Putin's top war officials has fallen 160 feet to her death.
According to the Russian news Telegram channel Mash, Marina Yankina, 58, was found by a passerby at the entrance of a high rise on Zamshina Street in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The New York Post reports that it is believed that she fell 160 feet to her death. Some of her belongings were on the 16th floor of the nearby high-rise. The official preliminary investigation concluded that Yankina committed suicide. Still, much of the public is highly skeptical of this because they don't necessarily believe that this is something that Yankina would necessarily have done.
Mash reports that Yankina called her husband just minutes before she committed suicide and told him that she would do this. They reported that she also asked her husband to call the police to the location where she was going to jump from the building.
There hasn't been an official reason why Yankina might have wanted to jump from the building, but there is speculation that she had some health problems before the jump from the building. This is something that has yet to be confirmed, but many people believe that this might be why she decided to jump from the building, at least according to official reports.
This entire incident is something that many in the West are having a difficult time believing. The fact remains that there are plenty of situations when Russia blames something like this on a suicide. It raises suspicion when so many of these situations always happen.
The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed that Yankina died and said they are leading the investigation into the cause of her death. This is not the first odd incident to have occurred recently: just earlier this week, the Russian Ministry of the Interior Maj. Gen. Vladimir Makarov, 72, died in an apparent suicide in another high-rise building. In his case, he died in a Moscow suburb.
Many are wondering if all of these are genuinely suicides or if this is just a clever excuse used by official Russian government channels to cover up their misdeeds.
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