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Major General Valery Plokhotnyuk was buried at Moscow's Troyekurovskoye Cemetery on 5 August, according to the anonymous Russian Telegram channel VChK-OGPU. Reporting identified him as likely having died in an explosion at a birthday party for the commander of Russia's Aerospace Forces. Russian authorities have not publicly explained the circumstances of the blast or the general's death, and details rest on anonymous Telegram sourcing. The case adds to a pattern of unexplained deaths among senior Russian military figures during the war.