A Russian-appointed commander for a city in southern Ukraine was seriously injured in an explosion on Tuesday, the latest in a series of open assassination attempts in the occupied parts of Ukraine, a local official said.
Vladimir Rogov, an official from the Russian-backed Zaporizhzhia regional government, initially told Reuters and two Russian news agencies that Berdiansk leader Artyom Bardin was dead and blamed the Ukrainian government.
Later, Rogov posted an online message saying that Bardin was fighting for his life after losing a lot of blood and a leg in the attack.
Reuters was unable to independently confirm Bardin’s condition.
The Russian media said that Bardin was hospitalized after his car exploded outside the Berdiansk town hall in the Zaporizhzhia region, a port city of 100,000 people on the Sea of Azov, and his condition is serious. It was captured by Russian troops in February. .
Local officials said the deputy director of the city’s traffic police died on August 26 after being injured in a bomb explosion.
On August 30, Aleksey Kovalev, a former MP from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party, who switched sides and was a regional Kherson official with Russian support, was shot dead.
source: Noticias
