High-ranking Ukrainian quisling official murdered in occupied Kherson Oblast

29/08/2022

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The Investigative Committee of Russia will investigate the murder of Oleksii Kovaliov, a Ukrainian MP who collaborated wirh the occupiers and was the quisling “Deputy Head of the Kherson Oblast Administration for Agriculture,” RIA reports.According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, Kovaliov died as a result of a gunshot wound, the attack was committed at his place of residence in Hola Prystan on August 28. A girl who lived with him also died.Kovaliov was a Ukrainian lawmaker with the Presidential Servant of the People party until he was stripped off his mandate in June.On 22 June, he survived an assassination attempt: a car bomb detonated under his car, however, Kovaliov survived.

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