Russian colonel targeted by horror car bomb as assassination squads take out leaders
dailystar.co.ukRussian military commander in charge has been severely injured in a car bomb attack. There are conflicting reports about Bardin Artem Igorevich's condition following the incident.
He is in charge of the occupied city of Berdyansk in south-eastern Ukraine.Russian military sources in Zaporizhzhia had confirmed that he had died, according to Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.However state-controlled media agency Gazeta Russiya has reported that Igorevich was still alive and undergoing emergency treatment.READ MORE: Desperate Russia 'recruiting volunteers from mental health unit' to fight in UkraineVladimir Rogov, a Russian official based in Zaporizhzhia, described the car bomb attack as a “terrorist strike” and blamed Ukrainian saboteurs.While three other vehicles are known to have been damaged in the blast, Rogov claimed there were no other Russian military personnel injured.Several high-ranking pro-Putin officials have been the targets of assassination attempts in Ukraine in recent weeks.Alexei Kovalev, a former ally of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy who notoriously switched sides in the first weeks of the war, was found dead in his home on August 28.He had been shot, and a Mossberg pump-action shotgun was found near his body.
A woman, reportedly his girlfriend, was also found in the house with stab wounds in her neck.Vladimir Saldo, appointed by the Kremlin to run the Russian occupied Kherson region, was apparently poisoned shortly after hiring a new chef.
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