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Daily Mirror
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Will Stewart & Rachel Hagan

Putin close aide cheats death after being targeted by 'massive' Ukrainian shelling

The second close aide to Vladimir Putin in two days has narrowly cheated death after being targeted by Ukrainian fire.

Sergey Kiriyenko is a former Russian prime minister who is now deputy chief of staff in the Kremlin and a very close crony to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The brute was giving awards to fighters in the Somalia Battalion, a separatist military unit of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic [DPR] when he had to flee to a bunker.

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