On Thursday, July 3, an explosion occurred in the center of russian-occupied Luhansk, killing former "mayor" Manolis Pilavov, who was the head of the occupation administration from 2014 to 2023. This was reported by the russian propaganda news agency TASS.
According to russian publications, the explosion occurred on Tarasa Shevchenko Street. The explosive device was allegedly activated when Pilavov was walking by. The explosion killed one person and injured three others.
It is reported that the explosion occurred near the local history museum, where an exhibition dedicated to Operation Potok [Stream] was opened - the passage of russian military personnel through a gas pipe to the rear of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk Oblast.
Photos from the scene of the explosion, distributed by russian media. Photo: t.me/bazabazon
Manolis Pilavov headed the Luhansk administration from December 2014 to November 2023. In 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine put Pilavov on the wanted list under three articles of the Criminal Code (violent change of the constitutional order, encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, creation of a terrorist organization). Before the occupation of the city, he held the position of first deputy mayor. He was also president of the Luhansk Football Federation and president of the Zoria football club.
We will remind, in the Moscow Oblast city of Balashikha, a russian general Yaroslav Moskalik was killed as a result of an explosion in a Volkswagen Golf car. The man died on the spot.
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