Guerrillas and possibly Ukrainian special forces have killed or attempted to kill at least 19 pro-Russian politicians and collaborators in territories occupied by the Russian military, some of them former Ukrainian officials who defected to the Russian side.

The list by region was compiled by members of WarTranslated, who note that it is probably incomplete:

March 2 – Luhansk: Volodymyr Struk, ex-deputy head of the Luhansk Regional Council, head of Kreminnaya – found dead;

March 20 – Kherson: assistant to the former mayor of the city, head of the administration, installed by the Russians in the Volodymyr Saldo district, Pavlo Slobodchikov – shot dead in a car near his house;

April 20 – Kherson: Valery Kuleshov, the assistant to the deputy head of the pro-Russian administration in Kherson, Kirill Stresmousov, was shot dead in the car in the region, who fled to Russia after the start of the counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops;

May 22 – Zaporizhzhia: Mayor of Energodar Andriy Shevchych – hospitalized after an explosion in the entrance of his house;

June 18 – Kherson: Yevhen Sobolev, appointed by the pro-Russian administration as head of the regional department of the penitentiary service, was hospitalized after an attempt on him;

June 22 – Kherson: Yurii Turulev, head of the pro-Russian administration of the village of Chornobayivka – his car was blown up, but he escaped with minor injuries;

June 24 – Kherson: Dmytro Savlutsenko, head of the family, youth and sports department of the State Administration of the Russian Federation – died in a car explosion;

July 10 – Kharkiv: Yevhen Yunakov, village head of Velikiy Burluk – died as a result of a car explosion near the local administration building;

July 11 – Zaporizhzhia: the head of the Melitopol District State Administration, Andriy Siguta – was not injured in the attempt;

July 7 – Kherson: Serhii Tomko, deputy police chief of the occupied city of Nova Kakhova – shot dead in his car;

Attempts became more frequent in August

August 4 – Kherson: Volodymyr Saldo, head of the administration of the southern Ukrainian region established by the Russians, was taken to Moscow, where he was hospitalized on suspicion of poisoning;

August 6 – Kherson: Vitaly Guru, the deputy head of the Novaya Kakhova city administration, was shot dead in his home. He was hospitalized with serious injuries and died while being transported to a hospital in Crimea;

August 12 – Zaporizhzhia: Oleg Shostak, one of the leaders of the United Russia party in the city of Melitopol, was injured in an explosion that blew up the party’s headquarters;

August 20 – Donetsk: Kostyantyn Ivashchenko, the Russian-appointed mayor of the port city of Mariupol, escaped unharmed from an assassination attempt while visiting the local zoo

August 22 – Kherson: Ihor Telegin, deputy head of the internal policy department of the regional administration created by the Russians – his car was blown up, but he survived;

August 24 – Zaporizhzhia: Ivan Susko, the head of Mykhailivka village, died as a result of a car explosion;

August 26 – Zaporizhzhia: Oleksandr Kolesnikov, deputy chief of the Berdyansk traffic police, died as a result of an explosion near his residence. He died from his injuries;

August 27 – Zaporizhzhia: Andrii Ryykov, chief of the Mykhailivka militia – found hanged in the village;

August 29 – Kherson: the deputy head of the Department of Agriculture of the Kherson region, Oleksiy Kovalev, was found dead in his house in the town of Gola Prystan. In June, he experienced another attack, after which he was hospitalized.

“Black list” of Ukrainian partisans

In a rare August interview with The New York Times journalists, several Ukrainian partisans spoke about the tasks they performed in the occupied territories and how the partisan units were trained even before the start of the war launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24.

They told NYT reporters that they consider police officers, municipal and regional civil servants, and teachers who agreed to work under the “educational program” created by the Russians in the occupied territories to be traitors.

Already in July, the occupying power installed by the Russians began a broad program of Russification of Ukrainian schools in the conquered territories, sending teachers to Moscow for “certification”. Many parents in the occupied zones reported that they were threatened with losing their children if they did not send them to school to learn Russian.

Ukrainian partisans, however, drew attention to the fact that doctors, firefighters and social workers are not included in the list of collaborators.

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