A top Russian Senior Defense official was found dead after plunging from a high window of a residential tower.

Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered at the front entrance of a residence on Zamshina Street in St. Petersburg by a passerby. She died after falling around 160 feet.

Yankina had a crucial role in the financing of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. She supervised the Ministry of Defense’s Financial Assistance Division for the Western Military District, which played a pivotal role in the dictator’s invasion of Ukraine.  The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed her death and is investigating how she fell.

Before joining the Western Military area, Yankina worked for the Federal Tax Service and served as Vice Chairman of the Property Relations Committee of St. Petersburg.

Sources state that suicide is suspected. However, this is routinely alleged by the Russian government prior to any investigation in such circumstances.

She is rumored to have played a pivotal part in efforts to raise funds for Putin’s war, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

According to early claims, she did not reside in the building.

During Putin’s lengthy tenure, a number of Russians have died in falls.

Major General Vladimir Makarov, 72, of the Russian Ministry of the Interior apparently committed suicide in a Moscow suburb last week.

According to unverified sources, after being fired by Putin in January, the general suffered from severe depression.

Colonel Vadim Boiko, a 44-year-old Deputy Head of the Makarov Pacific Higher Naval Academy in Vladivostok, was discovered dead in November with multiple gunshot wounds in an apparent suicide, according to authorities.

Boiko, who aided in some of Putin’s mobilization efforts, set himself up to be blamed for some of the problems that plagued the invasion of Ukraine and shot himself five times in the chest in the commander’s office.