Kirill Stremousov, top Russian-appointed Kherson official, ‘dies’

Russian state media reviews Moscow-appointed official in occupied Ukrainian area killed in automotive crash below unclear circumstances.

Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-installed deputy head of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, speaks in an unknown location in a video message posted on his Telegram channel.
Kirill Stremousov posted his final video messages on his Telegram channel on Wednesday [Kirill Stremousov Telegram Channel/Reuters]

Kirill Stremousov, the Moscow-installed deputy head of Ukraine’s Kherson area, has died in a automotive crash, in keeping with Russian state media.

The TASS information company mentioned the dying on Wednesday had been confirmed by the press service for the pinnacle of the area, with out giving particulars of the circumstances.

“It’s true,” TASS quoted the press service as saying.

In a put up on the Telegram messaging app, Sergei Aksyonov, head of the Russia-annexed Crimea Peninsula, known as Stremousov a “true fighter” and a “Russian patriot”. Aksyonov didn't specify the reason for the dying.

A Ukrainian and Russian nationwide, Stremousov was some of the distinguished public faces of Russia’s occupation of Ukraine’s territory. He was recurrently utilizing social media to advertise struggle propaganda, together with video updates whereas being inside automobiles transferring at velocity.

In his newest Telegram replace on Wednesday morning, Stremousov mentioned the Ukrainian offensive within the area had unsuccessfully tried to interrupt by the Russian forces’ defence line.

“The scenario is below the complete management of the Russian army,” he mentioned.

Ukrainian legislator Oleksiy Goncharenko known as Stremousov a “traitor”.

“He actively opposed the give up of Kherson and mentioned that Russia is right here eternally. After which he mysteriously dies,” he mentioned on Twitter.

 

Recently, Stremousov had been urging civilians to evacuate the western financial institution of the Dnieper River within the face of a mounting Ukrainian counteroffensive to take the southern area, which Russia claimed to have annexed.

Ukrainian officers have been cautious of such statements in addition to blatant indicators of a Russian defeat in Kherson, together with pictures circulated on social media of key buildings now not flying Russian flags, saying they could possibly be a entice.

The regional capital metropolis, additionally known as Kherson, which sits simply northwest of Crimea, was occupied throughout the first week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. Since then, it has seen common civilian protests that had been put down by Russian troops.

In July, one other official of the Russia-installed Kherson military-civilian administration, Dmitry Savluchenko, was killed in a bomb blast.

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