diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9f2510c65a..f2a1b39ed7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ attribute, which is used for container domain name in NNS contracts (#2954)
 - Overriding the default container and object attributes only with the appropriate flags (#2985)
 - RPC client reconnection failures leading to complete SN failure (#2797)
 - `meta.DB.Open(readOnly)` moves metabase in RO mode (#3000)
+- Panic in event listener related to inability to switch RPC node (#2970)
 
 ### Changed
 - `ObjectService`'s `Put` RPC handler caches up to 10K lists of per-object sorted container nodes (#2901)
diff --git a/cmd/neofs-node/main.go b/cmd/neofs-node/main.go
index d7d6bd8783..86e362e516 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-node/main.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-node/main.go
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ func wait(c *cfg) {
 	select {
 	case <-c.ctx.Done(): // graceful shutdown
 	case err := <-c.internalErr: // internal application error
-		close(c.internalErr)
 		c.ctxCancel()
 
 		c.log.Warn("internal application error",