Ukraine mentioned Wednesday it had assassinated a Russian officer liable for warfare crimes, concentrating on him with a automotive bomb inside Russia.
Veniamin Mazzherin, who died on the weekend, was the deputy commander of a Russian army police unit in Kemerovo, southwest Siberia, in keeping with Ukrainian Defense Intelligence.
The Russian Guard particular unit he helped lead was allegedly concerned in “war crimes and genocide against the Ukrainian people” in Kyiv throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the intelligence service mentioned.
NCS has requested the Russian Ministry of Defense and the National Guard of Russia for remark.
Video issued by the intelligence service reveals an unidentified individual holding a distant management, then pans to disclose a silver automotive on a highway earlier than the automotive explodes in a burst of flames.
In the video, the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence mentioned it had carried out surveillance on Mazzherin in an operation designed to “eliminate the executioner of the Ukrainian people.”
The reported killing of Mazzherin is the newest in a string of assassinations of Russian figures inside their very own territory.
In April, Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car explosion exterior Moscow. Russian authorities mentioned they charged a “Ukrainian special services agent” with terrorism, although Ukraine didn’t declare any accountability for the incident.
A number of months earlier than that, a high Russian common accused of utilizing chemical weapons in Ukraine was killed by a remotely detonated bomb planted in an electrical scooter exterior an condominium constructing in Moscow. A supply with data of the operation advised NCS that Ukraine’s safety companies had been behind the assassination.
In November 2023, Ukraine mentioned it was liable for the assassination of Mikhail Filiponenko, a lawmaker in a Kremlin-installed meeting in the occupied jap Ukrainian metropolis of Luhansk. Filiponenko was additionally killed with a automotive bomb.
Elsewhere, on the entrance line in southern Ukraine, a kids’s hospital in Kherson was attacked by Russian forces Wednesday, inflicting quite a lot of accidents, in keeping with regional authorities.
A nine-year-old lady suffered a mine-blast harm and shrapnel wounds to her decrease leg, Oleksandr Prokudin, the pinnacle of Kherson regional army administration, mentioned in a submit on Telegram. Several different kids and well being care employees had been additionally injured, the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office mentioned.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky referred to as the shelling a “deliberate Russian attack specifically against children, against medical personnel (and) against basic guarantees of life in the community” in a post on X, saying that Russia “could not have been unaware” of what it was putting.
“Russia is now the largest terrorist organization in the world, which is not only dragging out its terrorist war but also trying to do everything possible to ensure that no opportunity to end the war succeeds,” the Ukrainian chief continued.
“Terrorists must be dealt with only as they deserve – with strength and just treatment. I thank everyone who helps Ukraine,” Zelensky mentioned.
Meanwhile, on Ukraine’s jap entrance, Russian forces have infiltrated the town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk area, in keeping with Ukrainian officers. Tens of 1000’s of troops have amassed in the course of Pokrovsk, the seventh Corps of the Airborne Forces of Ukraine mentioned in a Telegram submit Wednesday.
NCS has reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defense for touch upon the developments in Pokrovsk and the reported strike in Kherson.