Monday morning 27 March in Mariupol blown up The car of the head of the city police department, Mikhail Moskvin. It has been reported TASS Referring to a source in the power structures of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
“In the morning, the car of the police chief Moskvin was blown up. He’s alive, everything is fine,” said the agency’s source.
According to him, the car exploded a few meters ahead of the police chief. As a result, Moskvin suffered a concussion.
“After the explosion, the chief of police suffered a mild concussion,” DPR law enforcement said.
The mayor of Mariupol, Oleg Morgun, said that an operations-investigation group was working at the scene of the explosion. He added that the explosion occurred around 9:30 Moscow time.
Mariupol is located in the south of the DPR, which, with the referendum held in September 2022, became part of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Kherson and Zaporozhye regions became part of the country.
In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Mariupol. Previously, the head of state did not travel to new territories, recalls red blood cell.
Previous assassination attempts
Employees of law enforcement and administrations in the new regions of Russia often become “priority targets” for assassination attempts, including Ukrainian special services and partisans. In some cases, related attacks resulted in the deaths of officials.
One of the most high-profile terrorist attacks was the explosion that occurred in the office of LPR Prosecutor General Sergey Gorenko on September 16 last year. He died together with his deputy, Ekaterina Steglenko.
On July 11, 2022, it was reported that an assassination attempt against Volodymyr Saldo, head of regional administration, was prevented in Kherson. The residents of the city, who found a suspicious object, reported it to the RF Armed Forces.
As a result, an improvised explosive device placed in the path of Saldo’s car was defused, according to media reports.
Later, in early August, Saldo was poisoned in connection with which he was taken to the Emergency Medicine Research Institute. Sklifosovsky in Moscow. After his treatment, he returned to his job.
Also, in mid-June, there was an assassination attempt on the head of the USIN in the Kherson region, Yevgeny Sobolev. His car blew up, Sobolev was hospitalized.
On the morning of July 11 in the Zaporozhye region, an unsuccessful attempt was made against the head of the Melitopol region, Andrei Siguta. According to local police, his car was shot at. It was reported that the attacker was identified by the security forces and was eliminated during the clash.
In December 2022, an attempt was made on the life of Nikolai Volyk, deputy head of Melitopol. It was reported that a hand-made explosive device was detonated while leaving the entrance of the house. In November, a bomb was detonated in front of the house of Andriy Boyko, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Zaporozhye region.