One of the senior Russian-appointed officers in occupied Ukrainian territory has been killed, based on the Russian-installed chief of the Kherson area, Vladimir Saldo, and reported in Russian state information businesses.
“It is extremely laborious for me to say that Kirill Stremousov died as we speak. He died on the territory of the Kherson area, shifting in a automobile that bought into an accident,” Saldo stated in an announcement on Telegram.
Saldo referred to as Stremousov, the Russian-appointed deputy head of the area, “one of many brightest, capable of converse and current to folks the reality about what is occurring within the Kherson area.”
Stremousov died in a highway accident, the press secretary of the pinnacle of the area stated, based on Russian information company TASS.
Russian state media firm Vesti (VGTRK) stated that, based on the Minister of Well being of the Kherson Area Vadim Ilmiev, Stremousov was killed in an accident on the freeway between Kherson and Armyansk in Crimea.
Valeria Petrusevich, head of the nonprofit group Good Peace-Crimean Volunteers, additionally wrote on her Telegram channel that “Kirill Stremousov, deputy governor of the Kherson area, died. The data is correct, I do know personally. It was an accident. Particulars later.”
Stremousov, a Ukrainian who was fast to aspect with the Russian occupation when Kherson fell early within the invasion, had grow to be one of the vocal and outspoken of Russian appointees.
As deputy head of the Kherson area navy administration, Stremousov was outstanding in organizing and supporting the referendum on Kherson’s declared annexation by Russia and extra just lately had been the driving power within the evacuation of civilians from the west financial institution in Kherson, as Ukrainian forces pushed towards the Dnipro River.
On Tuesday, Stremousov stated: “Most residents who determined to remain in Kherson are solely now starting to comprehend the gravity of the state of affairs and my warnings.”
Stremousov incessantly wrote on Telegram to explain Ukrainian officers and forces as “Nazis” and “fascists.” However he was additionally crucial of missteps by the Russian navy. He had blamed the navy setbacks in Kherson on “incompetent commanders” who had not been held accountable for his or her errors.
Sevastopol Gov. Mikhail Razvozhaev stated that Stremousov “was a real patriot of Russia, courageous and brave, in any state of affairs he remained in contact and regarded it his obligation to tell the residents of the Kherson area about what was occurring. This was the case this morning as effectively. That is an irreparable loss.”
Earlier Wednesday, Stremousov had revealed a video on the state of affairs on the entrance strains, notably on the combating round Snihurivska north of Kherson metropolis, the place there are reviews that Ukrainian forces have damaged by Russian defenses.
Stremousov was 45 years previous, based on Vesti.
