The Prosecutor-General of the Lugansk People’s Republic (L.P.R.) Sergey Gorenko was blown up in his office today. Also assassinated was his deputy, Ekaterina Steglenko. The head of the L.P.R. Leonid Pasechnik stated that a home-made bomb was employed, and that Kiev was to blame. Kiev, he said, “has crossed all the red lines. Today’s incident once again confirms that Ukraine, under its current leadership, is a terrorist state.”
Earlier today, at least five U.S.-made HIMARS missiles, according to RIA Novosti, targeted and hit the civil administration building in Kherson city. Kirill Stremousov, the deputy chair of the military-civilian administration, said the strike was meant specifically to take him out. The attack wounded a member of the military-civilian administration, Ekaterina Gubareva, and killed a driver of one of the officials. She called the strike a “craven act of terrorism.”
Earlier this week, the Russian FSB named Ilya Bondarchuk, a present or former officer of Ukraine’s SBU, as one of Kiev’s coordinators of assassinations of civilian officials. He is charged with providing money, weapons and targets for hired underlings to carry out assassinations in Kherson and Crimea. The FSB provided quotes from audio recordings, where Bondarchuk instructs a man with the operational name of “Mahmud.” The latter had been detained and turned by the FSB. Targets included the mayor and the deputy chief of police in a Kherson region municipality, and three Crimean ministers.
