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Several pro-Kremlin officials in the occupied territories of Ukraine have been killed or attacked.
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In Kherson, at least one official was killed in an attack with HIMARS missiles, occupation officials said.
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Ukraine has not taken responsibility for the attacks.
Ukraine has attacked an office building where pro-Kremlin collaborators gathered in Kherson, the latest attack on authorities in occupied territories, occupation officials say.
Kirill Stremousov, Kherson’s Russian-installed deputy leader, told Russian state television that US-supplied HIMARS missiles hit the area around his office on Friday, according to Reuters.
Videos taken after the explosion, smoke seems to be coming out of the damaged building.
Stremousov said that while it was too early to confirm the number of casualties, several were killed and injured.
Kremlin-appointed Labor Minister for Kherson, Alla Barkhatnova, said she was injured in the attack and her driver was killed, Russian media reported.
Separately, the attorney general of the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic and his deputy were killed in an explosion at their office on Friday, the separatist government head said on Telegram.
Ukraine has not taken responsibility for either attack, which Kremlin officials have labeled as “terrorist” acts.
The senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, denied that Ukraine was behind the explosion in Luhansk. Twitter it was probably due to organized crime groups or an attempt to get rid of witnesses to war crimes.
There are also reports of attacks on officials in the occupied city of Berdyansk.
While there have been sporadic reports of attacks on occupation officials in the past, they have generally not been on such a coordinated scale or through the use of long-range munitions.
Ukraine is currently conducting a successful counter-offensive in the Kharkov region, where it is making significant gains, along with counter-attacks in the southern Kherson region.
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