According to the Russian-backed authorities in the Zaporizhia region, the car he was in exploded in Crimea on Monday, injuring an official appointed by Russia. CNN.

Volodymyr Yepifanov, an assistant to the so-called “vice prime minister” of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, was in a car with two passengers when an explosion occurred on a highway in Crimea, said a local official appointed by Russia, Volodymyr Rogov. . All three were wounded and badly burned, Rogov said in Telegram.

“This morning (around 4:00 a.m.), a car exploded on the Yevpatoriya highway in Simferopol, in which Volodymyr Yefifanov, assistant to the vice-prime minister for economic development of the Zaporizhia region, who is also a candidate for people’s deputies from the “United Russia” party, was in. drove, wrote Rogov.

In his Telegram post, Rogov noted that the official cause of the explosion has not yet been established. But according to him, the car’s gas system was checked at the gas station in Simferopol on Sunday.

Several officials stationed in Russia were injured in targeted attacks using explosive devices in occupied parts of Ukraine, and a Russian commander was killed in a car bomb in Mariupol in March.

A collaborator of the Russian occupiers, Oleksandr Mishchenko, was killed in an explosion in the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, the mayor-in-exile, Ivan Fedorov, reported at the time, citing the Kyiv Independent.

According to the mayor, before the invasion, Mishchenko headed the police department in Melitopol: “After the occupation, he not only went over to the side of the enemy, but also tricked his employees into becoming traitors.”

In May, the pro-Russian deputy chief of the district police department in Zaporizhzhia, a region in southern Ukraine that is partially held by the Russians, was hospitalized after an explosive device detonated as he tried to open the gate of a house in Melitopol.

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