Posted on 12/07/2023 5:28:36 AM PST by dennisw
Oleg Popov and Ilya Kyva, declared traitors, were both found dead Wednesday
A pro-Kremlin politician branded a war criminal by Ukraine has been killed in a car bombing in occupied Luhansk, the second killing of its kind this week.
Footage showed 'Deputy of the People's Council of the Luhansk People's Republic' Oleg Popov's burning car after an explosion near the city stadium.
It was first reported Popov had been injured in an attack in Luhansk on Wednesday.
But the Investigative Committee of Russia later confirmed Popov's death had been caused by a device exploded in his car.
'As a result of the car explosion near the Avangard sports stadium in Luhansk, our colleague... Oleg Nikolaevich Popov died,' confirmed Yuri Yurov, another deputy in Luhansk's regional parliament.
The Kyiv Post reported that the 'special operation' was organised by the Security Service of Ukraine, later confirmed by a secret service source speaking to Pravda.
A source told the Post that Popov, 51, was a 'quite legitimate target, because before becoming a deputy he managed many Russian volunteer battalions, led illegal armed formations, and killed Ukrainians.'
'Undermining the leader is the best advertisement for the effectiveness of this committee's work,' the source said.
It was the second killing of a Ukrainian 'traitor' this week, with ex-MP Ilya Kyva, 46, shot dead near a country club near Moscow where he lived in exile on Wednesday.
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These two clowns were paid off (bribed) to become turncoats. They were being paid by Putin/The FSB....... But then they were promoted to higher pay grades by Ukrainian bullets and car bombs.
So far Zelensky has outlawed opposing political parties, the Orthodox Christian Church and now political opposition with the use of assassination. Congratulations on supporting this guy, it looks like he’s all in with Biden’s liberal world order.
It’s war and they were legitimate targets. There’s any number of things wrong in the politics of Ukraine. But these two aren’t part of that.
CC
you have no idea who or what they were, but that doesn’t stop you from standing with a NATO dictator.
A nice WWIII will keep Obama...er...Biden in the White House in '24.
Baba, you claim to live in Ukraine, yet you aren’t fighting for your country in these desperate times. Why is that?
you have that right. Now that Zelensky has opened the assassination door up, there’s no telling where it ends.
“ i am working for ukraine in ways that i cannot discuss here.”
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Money laundering? Lots of that going on.
Not that I believe you, but If you work for Ukraine in any capacity, the money you are paid comes from the American taxpayers. At least you could thank us.
LOL! “political opposition”!
That’s what you call people who take up arms against their country while in the pay of a foreign power, eh?
Usually we call those people “traitors”.
Okay then just put me down for “don’t really care”. Let’s not fight about something that neither of us genuinely understands.
CC
“Now that Zelensky has opened the assassination door up...”
Wrong again. Russia opened up the assassination door when they attempted to assassinate the elected President of Ukraine in 2004.
When are you going to the front? You armchair generals are needed ASAP.
link please.
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