A Ukrainian local official was shot dead by a gunman on Tuesday in Zaporizhya, a Kiev-controlled town in the south of the country, the Ukrainian National Police said, as political assassinations on both sides of the front increase.
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“In Zaporizhia, police are searching for a man who shot a local official […] She said on Facebook: “He died from his wounds.”
According to the police, who opened a murder investigation, the attacker opened fire on this official in front of a residential building.
Zaporizhia is located about twenty kilometers from the front line.
There have been several assassinations of Russian-appointed officials in the occupied regions of Ukraine over the past two years, which Moscow blamed on the Ukrainian security services.
Attacks targeting Ukrainian officials in Kiev-controlled areas are rare, but Ukraine has claimed to have foiled several assassination attempts against President Volodymyr Zelensky, other senior officials or their relatives.
