A car explosion in Russian-occupied Mariupol at 8:07, targeting the car of a Russian top-commander, was organized by the Ukrainian resistance, according to the legitimate mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko.
The assassination attempt was targeted at Mihail Moskvin, the quisling police chief of occupied Mariupol, Russia's state-controlled TASS reported citing the "law enforcement" structures of Russia's proxy "Donetsk People's Republic."
According to TASS, Moskvin's car exploded a few meters away from him, and the man suffered a concussion but is alive.
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In February 2023, there were speculations that Ukraine had received capabilities for long-distance strikes as a series of explosions occurred in Mariupol, occupied by Russia since May 2022.
Bombing collaborators is a regular activity of the partisan movement of Ukraine's Russian-occupied territories. On 3 February, a car explosion killed a policeman collaborating with Russian occupiers in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar.
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Russian authorities released Temirlan Eskerhanov, one of the men sentenced to 14 years in prison for the 2015 assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, and sent him to fight in Ukraine.
Slovak PM Fico, in his first speech since the assassination attempt, speculates that he was targeted for his anti-Ukraine position contradicting European mainstream.
Colonel Ivan Voronych’s killers — a foreign couple under FSB orders — didn’t get far. The assassins resisted arrest and died in a firefight with security operatives.
The assassination plot is linked to the broader Russian strategy to target defense industry executives across Europe who are supporting Ukraine’s war effort.