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The woman in charge of Putin’s ‘fake referendum’ in which the citizens of occupied Ukraine would vote on whether to join the Russian Federation was killed today in an obvious sabotage attack.
Lyudmila Boyko headed the electoral commission in Berdyansk, in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, and had been preparing to implement the Kremlin’s plans for an election.
But she was killed along with her husband Oleg Boyko, himself a top local official in the Russian-installed local government, in an explosion near her home.
It came when the Prosecutor General of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, Sergey Gorenko, was killed in another explosion that destroyed his office and also killed his deputy, Yekaterina Steglenko.
Victims
The four victims of the deadly attacks were in their 40s.
Russia attributes both explosions to operations carried out by Ukrainian saboteurs.
The general prosecutor of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, Sergey Gorenko, was killed in another explosion
Military officers and emergency services workers are pictured outside the General Prosecutor’s office in Luhansk today after an explosion killed the general prosecutor and his deputy.
“This is a great loss for us, for all those who have not come to terms with the criminal regime in Kyiv and continue to fight against its nationalist manifestations,” said Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee [IC] and an ally. close to Putin. .
‘We will provide all possible assistance in investigating this monstrous crime.
I have already instructed the Russian IC investigators to open a criminal case and investigate all the circumstances of the incident.
‘I express my deep and sincere condolences to family, friends and colleagues.’
Although Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for any sabotage attacks, Ukrainian actors appear to have launched several such operations to prevent pro-Russian governments in the occupied territories from gaining a foothold.
On September 6, military commander Artem Igorevich Bardin, appointed by Moscow to oversee Berdyansk and the surrounding region, was maimed in a car bomb.
The blast rocked a tree-lined street in the city center near the administration building, also injuring civilians.
Attack
That attack came just a week after another regional official, Ivan Sushko, was killed in a car bomb along with Alexander Kolesnikov, deputy chief of the Berdyansk traffic police.
The head of the prosecutor’s office in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region said some of the bodies unearthed from the mass burial site showed signs of torture, with some buried with their hands tied behind their backs or with ropes around their necks.
Izyum resident Sergei Gorodko said that among the hundreds buried in individual graves were dozens of adults and children killed in a Russian airstrike on an apartment building.
He said that he removed some of the rubble ‘with my bare hands’.
Zelensky hinted at war crimes in an overnight speech when he compared Izyum to Mariupol and Bucha, two cities where Russia has systematically exterminated civilians.
“We want the world to know what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to. Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izyum’, he said.
‘Russia leaves death everywhere. And she must be held accountable.
Kharkiv region police chief investigator Sergei Bolvinov said the bodies will be exhumed and taken for forensic examination.
