A popular Russian musician has become the latest critic of Vladimir Putin to ‘commit suicide’ by falling from a window after he was accused of donating money to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He had also called Putin an ‘idiot’ and a ‘b@stard’ online, which was certainly a bold move.

Vadim Stroykin, 58, reportedly threw himself out of a 10th story window in St. Petersburg moments after police raided his home.

British-educated radio host and composer Stroykin faced 20 years in prison if convicted of supporting the Ukrainian army.

Russian Telegram channels run by the Kremlin reported his death, stating that during the police raid on his house, Stroykin ‘went into a spare room, hastily opened a window and committed an irreversible act’. Somehow, I don’t think this will ever be independently verified.

Stroykin had shared a load of anti-war posts on his social media profiles and labelled Putin a ‘b@stard who went to war not only against a brotherly nation, but declared war on his own people.’

After graduating from the British College of Journalism, Stroykin became a radio host working for the Yekaterinburg bureau of the station ‘Echo of Moscow’, where he presented a show called ‘Anthology of the Author’s Song’. He was a very popular and well-known local figure.

He released several albums, ran a travel agency and opened a guitar school in St. Petersburg, before becoming a vocal critic of Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Stroykin is just one in a long line of Putin critics who have found themselves falling from the windows of high-rise buildings in Russia in recent years. Just earlier this week, top Russian colonel Artur Pryakhin died after plunging 50ft from a fifth-floor window while another was seriously injured from a similar fall.

Meanwhile, Colonel Alexey Zubkov – an employee of Russia’s Investigative Committee – is also fighting for his life after falling from a fourth floor window, according to Telegram channel VChK-OGPU. Despite being fully conscious, Zubkoy is ‘unable’ to explain the reasons for his fall.

Last September, Russian businessman Mikhail Rogachev, 64, died after falling 110ft from a window at his home, before his body was discovered by a member of the Russian security service. Rogachev’s family say he was in a ‘good mood’ and there was no way he would take his own life.

In 2023, Marina Yankina, 58, head of the financial support department of the Russian Defence Ministry’s Western Military District, was found dead after falling from a 16th-floor window in St. Petersburg. in 2022, Russian oil oligarch Ravil Maganov died after falling from a window while staying at a hospital in Moscow. And so on and so forth.

Now, you can glean your own conclusions as to whether Stroykin and the rest of Putin’s critics topped themselves or whether something more sinister is afoot. It’s not as though the Kremlin puts too much effort into making you think one way or another. It just seems these deaths always occur in a way that you can tell exactly why they happened without being direct about it. It’s a warning to every other Putin critic out there that high-profile figures who share these sentiments somehow and someway always find themselves falling out of the windows of high-rise buildings. Better than being poisoned by uranium, I guess.

I do wonder though – maybe these critics are given a choice? Either you get taken in and tortured and jailed for the rest of your life, or you can jump out the window. Perhaps not a difficult choice, if you think about it.

For the time Vladimir Putin mocked Tucker Carlson to his face for not getting accepted into the CIA, click HERE. How mean.