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Vladimir Putin has suffered yet another devastating blow in Ukraine
after one of his puppet governors was assassinated in a car bomb
explosion, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Andrii Shtepa, whom Putin put in place to govern the Ukrainian village
of Liubymivka, was confirmed dead on Thursday after his vehicle erupted
into a fatal and fiery inferno.

Shtepa was reportedly appointed by Putin as the governor of Liubymivka
in July after having lived in the Ukrainian region for years.

According to Liubymivka’s citizens, Shtepa’s appointment as governor
marked the beginning of a reign of terror carried out by the invading
Russian forces.

Putin’s soldiers reportedly began conducting “searches” that included beating up Liubymivka locals and kidnapping at least two men.

Serhii Myroshnyk, a former military accountant for Ukraine, alleged he
was beaten by Russian soldiers before being tied up and taken away in an unknown direction. He eventually escaped.

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"It looked like in the movies about the atrocities of the Nazis during
the Second World War,” one witness to the devastation caused by Shtepa
said, according to Daily Star. “The Russian occupiers kicked in the
doors, cursed, severely beat our men, turned everything in the houses
upside down.”

"In general, a lot of people were affected - they visited many houses,”
the witness went on. “Many things disappeared after them. Also, the
occupiers looked at all the phones and, as it seemed to us, copied their contents.”

"And this whole process was 'directed' by the newly appointed 'head of
the community' Andrii Shtepa,” the Liubymivka source added. "He had long-standing conflicts with many locals. It was he who showed the
occupiers who lived where and said that he would take revenge on everyone."

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the death of Shetpa in a fiery
blaze this week marked just the latest Putin ally to be killed since
Russia first invaded Ukraine in February.

Darya Dugin, the 35-year-old daughter of Putin’s top aide Alexander
Dugin, was killed in a similar car bomb attack in August.

Sources believe the attack was meant to kill Alexander, but his daughter
became the victim when she entered the vehicle instead of Putin’s aide.

"I knew Darya personally," Andrey Krasnov, a close friend to the
deceased, said after her death. "This was the father’s vehicle. Darya
took his car today, while Alexander went in a different way. He
returned, and he was at the site of the tragedy."

"As far as I understand, Alexander or probably both of them were the
target," the source added.






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