A former FSB head of the Kherson region

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The process of

" is accelerating in Kherson, the first major city captured by Russia, at the beginning of March.

Sergey Eliseyev, a 51-year-old Russian citizen, has arrived from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to take over the region of southern Ukraine.

A graduate of the Academy of the FSB - the Russian internal security service with ever-increasing power and importance -, Eliseyev previously held the post of first deputy to the governor of Kaliningrad.

It was the head of the "

" of Kherson, Volodymyr Saldo, a former mayor who moved to the pro-Russian side after the capture of the city, who announced the appointment on his Telegram account.

Saldo had been appointed to this position by the Russian army last April.

Within the new regional government of Kherson led by Elisseïev takes place in particular Alexei Kovalev, a former local deputy of the party of Volodymyr Zelensky who, too, took the side of Russia, and accused since of collaboration by his…

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