New deadly attacks against pro-Russian cadres. On Friday, the prosecutor general of the separatist pro-Russian region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine and his deputy were killed by an explosion, local authorities announced, which also reported attacks against officials of the Russian occupation in the South.
“Today, as a result of a terrorist act, Prosecutor General Sergei Gorenko and his deputy Yekaterina Steglenko were killed,” the pro-Russian leader of this separatist region, Leonid Passetchnik, said on Telegram.
Two other executives killed in Berdyansk
“The explosion, which occurred in the building of the General Prosecutor’s Office (…) shows that the kyiv regime has exceeded all limits of what is acceptable”, he continued, while affirming that the separatist authorities were looking for “people linked to this crime”, without giving further details on the nature of this explosion.
The head of the occupation administration in the region of Zaporijjia (South), Yevgeny Balitsky, for his part announced the death “during the night” of two pro-Russian executives in the port city of Berdiansk, conquered by Moscow at the end of February.
According to this source, the head of the Berdiansk electoral commission, responsible in particular for organizing a vote to join Russia, Lioudmila Boïko, was killed with her husband, Oleg Boïko, deputy head of the administration of the town.
One dead in the bombing of the administration headquarters in Kherson
In recent months, dozens of separatist officials or Russian administration officials in Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow have been targeted by attacks, and several of them killed.
On Friday, an official of the Russian occupation administration, Vladimir Rogov, also accused the Ukrainian army of carrying out strikes on the Kherson administration headquarters in the south of the country.
According to this official, a civil servant was injured by these strikes and her driver killed.
The occupation authorities are trying to carry out a policy of Russification, distributing Russian passports and introducing the rouble. They also militate for the organization of referendums of attachment to Russia.
These attacks come as the Ukrainian army has been carrying out major offensives in the south and north-east of Ukraine for more than two weeks.
