“In Nova Kakhovka in Kherson region, which is under Russian occupation, the chairman of the local “Council of Deputies” Vladimir Leontiev died after the injury obtained as a result of the probable attack of the Ukrainian drone”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
At 9:51 he informed that Leontiev had been seriously injured as a result of the attack of the Ukrainian Baba-Yaga drone, and at 11:07 he added that the wounds were incompatible with life.
“A true patriot was killed in a battle post from the fierce blow of the enemy, who loved Russia and Kherson region passionately,” the balance wrote.
The Ukrainian military has not been informed of this case at this time.
In April 2022, the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office announced Leontiev of suspicion of collaboration. According to the Ukrainian investigation, on April 2, Leontiev began cooperation with the occupying authorities and “proclaimed the head of the temporarily civil administration of New Kakhovka.” The prosecutor’s office claimed that he called on residents to cooperate with the Russian army and spoke about the need to “establish relations with the aggressor state.”
In Kherson region, officials and politicians who have gone to cooperate with the occupying authorities are killed.
On August 29, the MP from the party “Servant of the People” by Alexei Kovalev, who moved to the side of Russia and held a “ministerial” position in Kherson region during the war.
In early August of the same year, Vladimir Salda, appointed by the Russians, was poisoned by the head of the “regional administration” of the Kherson region, he was taken into resuscitation in Moscow, he survived.
On September 25, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions Vitaliy Zhuravko was killed in the hotel in Kherson.