{"id":1411496,"date":"2026-06-29T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-death-of-the-commander-of-the-154th-motorized-rifle-brigade-kononnikov-is-being-investigated-as-a-premeditated-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:51:36","slug":"the-death-of-the-commander-of-the-154th-motorized-rifle-brigade-kononnikov-is-being-investigated-as-a-premeditated-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-death-of-the-commander-of-the-154th-motorized-rifle-brigade-kononnikov-is-being-investigated-as-a-premeditated-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of the commander of the 154th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Kononnikov, is being investigated as a premeditated murder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Zaporizhzhia regional police have classified the death of a military officer who was found with a gunshot wound as a premeditated murder. Earlier, the &#8220;South&#8221; operational command reported the death of the commander of the 154th separate mechanized brigade, Colonel Volodymyr Kononnikov.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1452155576943068&#038;id=100064459195649&#038;mibextid=wwXIfr&#038;rdid=BWb6FKo5ptDJyhRr#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the police of the Zaporizhzhia region.<\/p>\n<p> The police reported that the commander of one of the military units was found without signs of life with a gunshot wound. Information on this fact has been entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which provides for liability for intentional murder.<\/p>\n<p> The law enforcement agency did not name the deceased serviceman. At the same time, the &#8220;South&#8221; operational command previously reported that on Sunday, June 28, the commander of the 154th separate mechanized brigade, Colonel Volodymyr Kononnikov, was found without signs of life.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/pomer-komandyr-154-i-ombr-volodymyr-kononnikov-shcho-vidomo\/\">on Sunday, June 28, the commander of the 154th separate mechanized brigade, Colonel Volodymyr Kononnikov, was found dead.<\/a> According to preliminary information, no signs of violent death were found, and an official investigation and investigative actions are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zaporizhzhia regional police have classified the death of a military officer who was found with a gunshot wound as a premeditated murder. Earlier, the &#8220;South&#8221; operational command reported the death of the commander of the 154th separate mechanized brigade, Colonel Volodymyr Kononnikov. This was reported by the police of the Zaporizhzhia region. The police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1411488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1411496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}