Russia-installed Kharkiv official killed in car blast

Yevgeny Yunakov, the Russia-installed head of the occupation administration of Velykyi Burluk settlement in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, was killed in a car blast, Russian state news agency TASS reports, citing the press service of the region’s “administration.”

“A car explosion in Veliky Burluk, which killed local administration chief Yevgeny Yunakov, was a well-planned terrorist attack organized by Nazis from the Ukrainian government,” the statement quoted by TASS reads.

According to the regional “administration”, an explosive device was planted under the car.

Yesterday, a spokesman for Odesa regional administration Serhiy Bratchuk reported that Yunakov had possibly been killed. According to KharkivToday, Yunakov used to work as an attorney at the office of Vilkhuvatka municipality head Vasily Sorokin, who also took the side of the occupying forces.

On Monday, the “military-civil administration” of the Kherson region stated on its Telegram channel that they had thwarted an assassination attempt on the “head” of the administration Vladimir Saldo. According to the channel, an improvised explosive device was planted along the route of Saldo’s car.

On 24 June, Russian state media reported that a member of the Kherson occupation government had been killed in a blast. According to preliminary reports, the man in question was Dmitry Savluchenko, who served as the “head of the department of family, youth and sports” of the Russia-installed “military-civil administration of the Kherson region.”