US officials say a trio of assassination attempts targeting pro-Russian officials over the past two weeks suggests a burgeoning resistance movement against pro-Russian authorities occupying parts of southern Ukraine. 9News
officials say the resistance could grow into a wider counterinsurgency that would pose a significant challenge to Russia's ability to control newly captured territory across Ukraine.
The first attack in Kherson occurred on June 16, when an explosion shattered the windows of a white Audi Q7 SUV. The vehicle was left seriously damaged, but the target of the attack survived. Serhii Khlan, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Kherson Civil Military administration, called Savluchenko a "traitor" and said he had been blown up in his car.The Russian invasion is still raging after four months.
So far, the resistance has not dented Russia's control over Kherson, the source familiar with Western intelligence emphasised. Russian forces have gradually instituted the ruble as the local currency and issued Russian passports.Children walk among buildings destroyed during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic.
The attempts to forcibly erase Ukrainian culture and dictate a Russian hegemony have produced the opposite effect in some cases, according to a senior NATO official.
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