Charge d'affaires ad interim Oleksandr Senchenko, who headed Ukraine's diplomatic mission in Armenia, drowned at the local Lake Sevan, the foreign affairs website Yevropeyska Pravda has reported.
According to the website, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry confirmed the news.
Yevropeyska Pravda quoted local news websites as saying on the evening of 13 August that rescuers at the Lake Sevan spotted a man who disappeared during a swim 25 m from the shore. They approached the spot, recovered the body from the depth of around 1.5 m and took it to the shore. The medics who arrived at the site confirmed the man's death.