Zaporozhye councilor Volodymyr Rogov noted that an explosive was placed under the seat of Sushko’s car. The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to open a criminal case.
“Today, as a result of the deliberate blow up of a car, Ivan Sushko, the head of the village of Mihaylovka, Zaporozhye region, died. “An explosive device was placed under the seat of the head of the settlement,” he said. knowledgeable Rogov is on Telegram channel.
He noted that as a result of the explosion, Sushko was injured and hospitalized in critical condition, but later died. Rogov noted that the explosive device was directional. Also, the victim’s daughter was in the car.
“At the time of the explosion, the adopted daughter of the deceased was in the car. Ivan Sushko was taking him to kindergarten. With lucky luck, the boy survived and did not receive critical injuries, ”the statement said.
Undermining the car, which Rogov considers an act of terrorism, he noted that such actions “only strengthen the desire of the inhabitants of the Zaporozhye region to be with Russia.”
Actually, Alexander Bastrykin, head of RF IC instructed File a criminal case according to the Ministry’s Telegram channel. The Investigative Committee will have to ascertain all the circumstances of the tragedy and the identity of the people involved in the murder. “The course of the criminal case investigation will be under control at the head office of the Russian Investigative Committee,” the report says.
Assassination attempt on pro-Russian officials
On August 23, an attempt on the life of Igor Telegin, deputy head of the internal policy department of the Kherson regional administration, was prevented. The head of the region, Kirill Stremousov, said that an improvised explosive device had exploded. The officer was unharmed. A local sabotage group was likely involved in the assassination attempt. At the moment, the circumstances of the attempt on the life of an employee of the Kherson region administration are being investigated.
On July 12, Zaporozhye’s law enforcement detained Yaroslav Zhuk, who was the head of the assassination attempt on Elena Shapurova, director of the Melitopol Education Department.
In Melitopol, saboteur Yaroslav Zhuk, who was the perpetrator of the assassination attempt on the head of the city’s education department, Elena Shapurova, on June 17, 2022, was detained.
On the night of July 11, an unidentified person opened fire on the house of Andrey Siguta, the head of the Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye region, after which he disappeared in the forest in the suburbs. Later, the saboteur was eliminated. According to Mikhail Selivanov, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Zaporozhye, they planned to lure Siguta out of the house and eliminate him with a shot or a grenade.
“As a result of the measures taken, the perpetrator was identified. He offered armed resistance during the arrest. Rogov received injuries incompatible with life from the corresponding fire, ”the statement said.
Also on July 11, an assassination attempt on Volodymyr Saldo, the head of the Kherson region, was foiled.
“Thanks to the vigilant inhabitants of Kherson, it was possible to timely detect and disable an improvised explosive device placed on the route of the car of the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Vladimir Saldo. At the same time, people who were nearby could have been harmed by the explosion, ”the regional government’s Telegram channel reported.
On the same day, it was learned that an explosion occurred in the car of the head of the administration of Veliky Burluk in the Kharkiv region, the official Yevgeny Yunakov died.
On June 24, it became known about the murder of Dmitry Savluchenko, head of the Department of Family, Youth and Sports of the Kherson region. The saboteurs placed an explosive with a capacity of about 300 grams of TNT under the seat of the official’s car.
On June 18, an attempt was made on the life of the head of the department for the execution of sentences in the Kherson region, Yevgeny Sobolev. An explosive device was placed in the parking lot of the official’s personal vehicle. Sobolev was hospitalized with a wound, there was no danger to life.
On May 22, at the entrance to the house of the head of the Energodar administration, Yevgeny Shevchik, an explosive device placed in an electrical cabinet detonated. The explosion roared as Shevchik entered. He and two of his bodyguards were injured. It was later discovered that the official was recovering. Previously, he had repeatedly received threats in connection with cooperation with the Russian authorities.