Assassination attempt on Kherson Oblast governor thwarted

An attempted assassination of the Governor of Kherson Oblast, Oleksandr Prokudin, was thwarted on April 10, head of Ukraine’s SBU Security Service, Vasyl Malyuk, revealed during a meeting of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities on April 12.

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“A local resident, a traitor who was detained on April 10, organized an assassination attempt on Prokudin together with enemy special services,” Malyuk said.

According to him, a new model of enemy FPV drone was launched 7.5 miles away, and this local resident was conducting visual surveillance and adjusting fire at car of Kherson Governor.

Malyuk noted that all this was documented, and suspect was detained at stage of the completed attempt.

“Enemy drone was downed quickly, thanks to our guys,” he said.

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SBU Head also noted that in addition to this incident, there were 12 other similar “episodes”.

“This is enemy work on military (targets), defense industry (targets), and on overall situation in Kherson Oblast,” he concluded.

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