An explosion occurred in the occupied Melitopol. The death of the head of the police department appointed by Russia

The city administration appointed by Russia reported an explosion at the entrance of a high -rise building. According to her, another silovik was injured in the explosion, he was hospitalized.

The Insider notes that the previously similar message about the death of one of the pro -Russian officials was not true, despite the publications of both Russian and Ukrainian sources. On August 6, military unit Yuri Kotenok said that Vitaly Gura, appointed by Russia of the Novokakhovskiye Housing and Communalized Medical University, died when transporting to the Crimean hospital after an attempt was attempted. Both Ukrainian sources ("country.ua") and the Kremlin media reported about death. However, in more than a month, on September 12, the first channel showed the plot that Gura is actually alive, and his murder was called the FSB “in the name of salvation”.

After the start of the war in Ukraine, the state Russian media began to report attacks on pro -Russian representatives of administrations, including Ukrainian officials who had gone to the side of the Russian Federation. Some reports of attempts and subsequent deaths were later confirmed. In August in the Kherson region, the ex-deputy of the Party "Servant of the people" Alexei Kovalev, who went to the side of Russia, was killed . According to the TFR, he was attacked in his house, he died of a gunshot wound. In July, in the occupied by Russia, the Kharkiv region, a car was undermined with the Russian Federation appointed to the post of head of the village of Veliky Broluk Evgeny Yunakov, he died. Also in June in Kherson the car “Head of the Department of Family, Youth and Sports” of the occupation administration of the Kherson region Dmitry Savluchenko was blown up , he also died on the spot.