kyiv claims the elimination of an official from the Lugansk region annexed by Russia

The military intelligence services of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry accused Mikhail Filiponenko on Telegram of having been “involved in the organization of torture chambers” in the occupied part of the Lugansk region.

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A resident of Lysychansk rides a bicycle on a street, amid Russia's military invasion, June 23, 2022, in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.  (ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP)

Ukraine claimed responsibility on Wednesday, November 8 for the car bomb assassination of Mikhail Filiponenko, a deputy and former senior military official in the Ukrainian region of Lugansk, under Russian occupation. The Russian Investigative Committee released images showing a vehicle with blown out windows and a crushed front left door, with traces of a red liquid visible on the rear door.

The special operation to liquidate the executioner Filiponenko was carried out jointly with representatives of the resistance movement” Ukrainian in this area, said the military intelligence services within the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. They accused Mikhail Filiponenko on Telegram of having been “involved in organizing torture chambers” in the occupied part of the Lugansk region. Ukrainian intelligence thus launched a threat of “reprisals” towards “all war criminals and collaborators”.

The head of the occupation administration of the Lugansk region, Leonid Passetchnik, praised on Telegram the memory of a “real man” who, according to him, still had “lots of projects” For “develop” the region under occupation. Mikhail Filiponenko was one of the founders of the Lugansk separatist army in 2014, at the start of the war between kyiv and these pro-Russian troops supported by Moscow.


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