Collaborator killed in car explosion in Kherson
IRYNA BALACHUK - FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2022, 10:25
Preliminary reports indicate that a representative of the so-called oblast administration of Russian-occupied Kherson was killed when his car exploded.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlets RIA Novosti, TASS and RT; Ukrainska Pravda sources; Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazanskyi on Telegram
Details: Russian media have reported that a car exploded in Kherson on the morning of 24 June.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, the car belonged to a local collaborator, Dmytro Savluchenko, who was an official of the Nova Rus youth organisation and head of the pro-Russian administrations family, youth, and sport department. According to preliminary reports, the person in the car was killed.
Russian media are also reporting that Savluchenko died in what is believed to be an assassination attempt.
Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazanskyi also reported Savluchenko's death, posting a photo of the scene.
According to Kazanskyi, Savluchenko was a member of the party led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has been accused of state treason, and openly engaged in anti-Ukrainian activities in Kherson for many years.
The journalist suggested that the collaborator could have been killed by Ukrainian special services, but said that the possibility of criminal dealings could not be ruled out.
According to Kazanskyi, right now there is "a crazy carve-up of looted goods in the occupied territories – various groups are fighting over the export of stolen grain, inventing various 'yellow passes' to tax farmers, looting seized factories."
Background:
On 22 June, Russian media reported that a car belonging to Yurii Turulov – a former head of the local bus station, protégé of the occupiers in Chornobaivka, and serving as the [occupiers’ – ed.] "Head of the Oblast Military Administration" – had been blown up. It was reported that Turulov had sustained minor injuries.
On the same day, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's main intelligence directorate, confirmed that a car belonging to Oleksii Kovalyov, a member of parliament and collaborator, had been blown up in Kherson Oblast. The collaborator’s condition was not known at the time.
