Skip to content
Search
Close
SHOP
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Commentary
  • Essays
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Tributes
  • Media
  • Events
Menu
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Commentary
  • Essays
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Tributes
  • Media
  • Events
  • NEWS

Car Bombing Kills Russia-Installed Official in Town of Mykhailovka

The attack comes less than a week after the murder of Darya Dugina, and amid an uptick of car bombings targeting Russian administrative officials in southeast Ukraine.
  • Robert Semonsen
  • — August 26, 2022
The attack comes less than a week after the murder of Darya Dugina, and amid an uptick of car bombings targeting Russian administrative officials in southeast Ukraine.
  • Robert Semonsen
  • — August 26, 2022

A Russia-installed official who had been tasked with overseeing administrative activities in Mikhailovka, a small city of 50,000 people in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, was killed in a car bombing attack on Wednesday, a member of the region’s Russian-backed administration has announced.

The killing of Ivan Sushko comes less than a week after Darya Dugina, the daughter of the Russian philosopher and geopolitical thinker Alexander Dugin, was murdered in a car bombing attack. It is the latest of a slew of partisan attacks that have taken place in recent weeks against Kremlin officials in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Echo of the Caucasus reports.

Commenting on the attack, Vladimir Rogov, a member of Zaporizhzhia’s Russian-backed administration, wrote: “An explosive device was placed under the car seat. Ivan Sushko was wounded in the explosion and hospitalized in critical condition. Soon after he died.” Rogov has accused Kyiv of orchestrating bombing, slammed the government as a “terrorist organization,” and called for its “destruction.” Kyiv has yet to provide comments on the incident.

Sushko’s assassination took place as Ukrainians celebrated Independence Day and the United States announced an additional military aid package totaling some $3 billion. So far, six months into the Russo-Ukrainian war, the U.S. government has sent over $50 billion in military and non-military aid to Ukraine.

Earlier this week, on Monday night, Igor Telgin, the Russian-appointed deputy head of the internal policy department in Kherson, was reportedly hospitalized after the vehicle was hit with a radio-controlled roadside bomb. Local Russian authorities claim that he is “alive and well” with no serious “complications.”

In the past weeks and months, at least two other Russian officials appointed to administer the newly captured territory in Kherson, situated about 100 kilometers to the southeast of Mykolaiv, have been assassinated. 

Vitaliy Gura, an official in the city of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region was shot dead near his home on August 6th, Russian state-media TASS reported. Two days later, Vladimir Saldo, the head of Russia’s regional administration of the Kherson region, was poisoned. Currently, he is in a toxicological intensive care unit in Moscow. In late June, Dmitry Savluchenko, another official in the Russian-controlled Kherson region, was assassinated in a car bombing.

Robert Semonsen is a political journalist for The European Conservative. His work has been featured in various English-language news outlets in Europe and the Americas. He has an educational background in biological and medical science. His Twitter handle is @Robert_Semonsen.
  • Tags: car bombing, Mykhailivka, partisan activity, Robert Semonsen, Russian administrators, Russo-Ukraine War

READ NEXT

It Begins: Ukraine Officially Announces Counteroffensive 

Chris Tomlinson June 8, 2023

French Pension Reform: The Final Debate?

Hélène de Lauzun June 8, 2023

Canada Shatters State-Sponsored Suicide Record

Tamás Orbán June 8, 2023

IMPRESSUM

SUBSCRIPTION

LOG IN

PRIVACY POLICY

CONTACT

[email protected]

© The European Conservative 2023

  • Impressum
  • Privacy Policy
  • General Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

Made by DIGITALHERO

Issue 26, Spring 2023

  • News
  • Analysis
  • Commentary
  • Essays
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Tributes
  • Media
  • Events
Menu
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Commentary
  • Essays
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Tributes
  • Media
  • Events
Search

About

SHOP

JOBS & VACANCIES

Login