- Several pro-Kremlin officials in occupied Ukraine have been killed or attacked.
- In Kherson, at least one officer was killed in an attack using HIMARS missiles, occupation officials said.
- Ukraine was not responsible for the attack.
Occupation officials claimed Ukraine attacked the office building where pro-Kremlin collaborators met in Kherson, the latest apparent attack on the authorities in the occupied territories.
Kirill Stremousov, Russia’s appointed deputy leader of Kherson, told Russian state television that U.S.-supplied HIMARS rockets hit the area around his office on Friday, with every Reuters.
video take The blast appeared to show plumes of smoke billowing from the damaged building.
While it is too early to confirm the number of casualties, several people have been killed and injured, Stremusov said.
Kremlin-appointed labor minister Alla Barkhatnova in Kherson said she was injured in the attack and her driver was killed, Russian media report.
In addition, the self-proclaimed Prosecutor General of the Luhansk People’s Republic and his deputies Blast in their office The head of the separatist government said on Telegram on Friday.
Ukraine was not responsible for the two attacks, which Kremlin collaborators called acts of “terrorism”.
Mikhailo Podoljak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, denies Ukraine was behind the Luhansk bombing, suggesting that Twitter This could be due to organised crime groups or witnesses trying to get rid of war crimes.
There have also been reports of attacks on officials in occupied cities Berdyansk.
While attacks on occupation officials have previously been reported sporadically, they have generally not been on such a coordinated scale or used long-range munitions.
Ukraine is currently conducting a successful counter-offensive in the Kharkov region and has made considerable gains in the region, while counterattacking in the southern Kherson region.
