Ukraine picks up traitors aiding Putin’s walkover elections after wave of car bombs in occupied territory
Putin sympathizers in the occupied territories of Ukraine are reportedly being targeted in a new wave of car bombings.
One ’employee’ who organized the organization Russian presidential elections in progress Zaporizhia It is believed he was murdered this week.
Kremlin-appointed deputy mayor Svetlana Samoilenko, 46, had led the illegal management election in the city annexed by Russia Berdyansk.
According to the Russian Investigative Committee, a handmade explosive device was placed under the driver’s seat of her car on March 6.
A Russian security official said: “When the car’s owner, who was a voting member of the Election Commission, got into her ZAZ Tavria car, the improvised explosive device went off.
“The victim died at a medical facility from her injuries.”
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The Ukrainian GUR military intelligence identified her as “collaborator” Samoilenko and she was “eliminated”.
She was appointed deputy mayor of the port city by the occupying forces and was a key organizer of this week’s elections, which took place from March 15 to 17.
“She intimidated and terrorized the residents of Berdiansk and forced them to participate in an illegal fake vote,” the spokesperson said Ukrainian agency claimed.
Separately the car of one Ukrainian SBU secret service agent who switched sides to Russia after the invasion was also blown up.
Former SBU agent Igor Tsiferov, 52, was also targeted in a car bomb attack Dokuchaevskin Donetsk region in a reported murder bid.
Are Skoda The car exploded, but according to Ukrainian sources its condition is not yet known.
Military journalist Andrei Tsaplienko said: “He switched to the enemy’s side and worked in the so-called Ministry of State Security of the Donetsk People’s Republic.”
He added that he has long been on the Ukrainian wanted list, although there is no information yet about Tsiferov’s condition.
Ukraine is known to have deployed sabotage teams in Russian-occupied areas of its country since the invasion.
In November last year, two Putin security officials were blown up in a car bomb attack in the Russian-occupied eastern city of Luhansk.
Both Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Shumilov and head of the criminal investigation Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Pakholenko were taken to hospital with serious shrapnel wounds after the explosion.
Andriy Cherniak, a representative of Ukrainian military intelligence, said at the time that they worked with local Ukrainian partisans to plan and carry out the car bombing.
In August, former member of the Ukrainian security service Askyar Laishev was targeted by members of the Ukrainian National Resistance in the Donbas.
Laishev had turned against his people and switched to the The Moscow-backed Lugansk People’s Republic as intelligence chief in 2014, but the National Resistance retaliated on August 11.
The National resistance bombed his car while driving through the city, and although he reportedly got out of the car after the explosion, he died in hospital days later.
The National Resistance said: “We emphasize once again that collaboration is harmful to your health, so every traitor has a vain hope that retaliation will not come to him.”