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The Russian-installed ‘deputy head’ of Kherson region has been killed in a car crash.
Russia’s press service confirmed that Kirill Stremousov, 45, died in the accident.
Telegram channels supporting Putin’s regime have reported that the crash happened near Henichensk in Kherson, his personal driver told the @wargonzo project.
Russia’s press service confirmed that Kirill Stremousov, 45, pictured, died in the accident
Earlier today he had typically accused the West of being behind the Ukrainian advance in Kherson.
Many English- and Polish-speaking mercenaries among the advancing forces, he alleged, offering no proof.
He told how there was an evacuation from Kherson.
‘Many have left. About 80,000 people were evacuated. We help everyone who wants to leave Kherson. I am now in Kherson myself,’ he said.
The place he was killed is Russian controlled and 130 miles from Kherson city.
The place he was killed is Russian controlled and 130 miles from Kherson city. Pictured: Stremousov
Pictured: Stremousov, who had said that Russia was in Kherson forever
Ukrainian blogger and politician Anatoly Shariy said: ‘Several sources confirmed the death of Stremousov.
‘If this is true, then I understand what kind of ‘traffic accident’ this was right now when the surrender of Kherson is obvious.’
He appeared to imply that Stremousov had many enemies for supporting the Russian occupation forces which are now pulling back.
He added: ‘And the main thing – if he was killed, and exactly in the way I was told it happened, then it was no Ukrainian Army spies killing him.’
‘Russia is in Kherson forever,’ Stremousov – who had worked as a handyman in the US – had boasted, ahead of losses which mean Putin’s forces are on the retreat.
But the official also had enemies among Russians after blasting Putin’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu for alleged incompetence in defending Kherson region.
‘There is no need to cast a shadow over the entire Russian Defence Ministry at the moment because of some, I am not saying traitors,’ he said last month.
The ‘deputy head’, pictured, said that Kherson could not and would not be handed back to Ukrainians
Shoigu’s ‘untalented military commanders’ have ‘not really bothered to answer for all the processes and holes that now exist’.
He declared: ‘Indeed many say, if I were the defence minister who allowed this state of affairs to happen, as an officer I could have just shot myself.’
He then suggested that the word ‘officer’ was ‘incomprehensible’ to Shoigu.
Stremousov, a Ukrainian pro-Russian politician wanted in Kyiv for treason, lumped Shoigu and his generals together with ‘corrupt marauders and other scum’ in the Russian defence ministry.
Stremousov, pictured, a Ukrainian pro-Russian politician wanted in Kyiv for treason, lumped Shoigu and his generals together with ‘corrupt marauders and other scum’ in the Russian defence ministry
Political analyst Sergey Markov said: ‘Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Kherson region, was killed. It’s all very strange.
‘He kept saying that Kherson could not be handed over and it would not be handed over.
‘He died on the day when they began to actively talk about the surrender of Kherson.
‘He died not from a terrorist attack, but in an accident. Not in Kherson, but in Genichesk
‘With him in the car was a military commander Kotz, he did not die.
‘All this is very strange.’
Stremousov was wanted in Kyiv for treason.
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