Andrey Shevchik speaks to the international press. Archival photo MOSCOW, May 23. Russian investigators will establish the circumstances of the assassination attempt by Ukrainian nationalists on the mayor of the city of Energodar in the Zaporozhye region Andriy Shevchik, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Investigative Committee. According to the investigation, on May 22, the mayor , as well as two of his guards, were injured in an explosion in the entrance of the house. A homemade directional bomb was planted in an electrical cabinet. According to local law enforcement agencies, after he took the pro-Russian side, Shevchik repeatedly received threats from Ukrainian nationalists.
" , which is under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation & # 34;, — they said in the UK.
The fact that the Russian army took control of the cities of Berdyansk and Energodar in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, as well as the territory around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, was announced in early March by an official Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» Donbass.
22 Ukrainian nationalists were killed in the DPR in a day