As of: March 27, 2024, 4:17 p.m
By: Sandra Kathe
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Pro-Russian advocates repeatedly fall victim to assassination attempts because of war crimes committed in the Ukraine war or their use against Ukrainian sovereignty.
Moscow/Kiev – In a television interview, Ukrainian security service chief Vasyl Malyuk indirectly admitted the possible involvement of Ukrainian forces in attacks on various pro-Russian figures.
As an example, he cited the case of the Ukrainian-born military blogger Vladlen Tatarski, who was murdered in a St. Petersburg bar last April, as well as more recent attacks such as the assassination attempt on the politician Ilya Kywa.
As reported by several media outlets, including the Ukrainian news portal
Ukrayinska Pravda
and the British news channel
Sky News
, Malyuk appeared in an hour-long interview on Ukrainian television this week in which he confirmed that the Ukrainian secret services were arresting "very many" people because of their involvement in war crimes in the Ukraine war and attacks on the people of Ukraine as possible targets.
Among the pro-Russian figures killed was Ukrainian-born military blogger Vladlen Tatarski.
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Ukrainian secret service: Malyuk remains vague about information about attacks
Although Malyuk did not directly admit that the Ukrainian domestic secret service SBU was involved in the incidents, he did point out that the direct interview question was appropriate and that he could provide “some details,” even if his organization “will not officially admit anything about it.” “, quotes
Sky News
.
According to
Ukrainska Pravda,
Maliuk then explained some details about the cases of Kywa, Tatarsky and the separatist politician Zakhar Prilepin as well as Igor Kornet, who was one of the leading figures of the non-internationally recognized Luhansk People's Republic.
The latter two barely survived assassination attempts made against them.
For each of the cases, SBU boss Maliuk spoke about some details and background information about the weapons used and the respective crimes of those attacked.
Tatarsky, who was born in Ukraine, was involved in founding an “underground prison subculture” and “organized the rape of prisoners of war”.
Former Ukrainian MP Kywa, who worked for the Russian enemy for a long time, was convicted in absentia of treason.
Kywa died in December in the Moscow area.
Ukraine War: Assassinations of Separatist Leaders and Pro-Russian Thought Leaders
Other cases Maliuk spoke of include the politician and writer Zakhar Prilepin, whom the intelligence chief called an “ideologist of the Russian world,” as well as two leaders of the “Luhansk People's Republic,” which Russia claims as its own, Sergei Gorenko and Igor Kornet.
They were all victims of explosive attacks between September 2022 and May 2023.
While Prilepin's companion and Gorenko died, Prilepin and Kornet survived the attacks on them with serious injuries.
Putin advisor Aleksandr Dugin also survived an attack in August 2022, after which he gave his daughter Darja his car, which had been rigged with a car bomb.
The woman died in the incident.
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Tatarski's case in particular hit the media in the spring of 2023.
The military blogger had organized a “patriotic evening” at a bar in St. Petersburg, during which a bust prepared with explosives was presented to him, apparently in his honor.
His alleged assassin, Daria Trepova, was sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Russian court.
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