The Russian ambassador to the United Nations died after suffering cardiac arrest in Manhattan Monday morning, a day before his 65th birthday, sources told The Post.
Vitaly Churkin fell ill at his office at the Russian Mission to the U.N. on East 67th Street around 9:30 a.m. and was unconscious when emergency personnel arrived, sources said.
Churkin was given CPR and taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital in serious condition.
He was pronounced dead at 10:55 a.m., sources added.
Churkin had served as Russia’s permanent representative to the U.N. since 2006.
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