Valery Trankovsky had ordered missile strikes from Black Sea on civilian targets, a Ukrainian official said
A senior Russian naval officer was killed in a car bombing in Crimea on Wednesday, the latest in a series of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel and pro-Kremlin figures in occupied Ukrainian territories as well as insidethat the agency had orchestrated the car bomb attack in the Russian-controlled port city of Sevastopol that killed Valery Trankovsky, the chief of staff of the 41st Missile Brigade of the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet.
The official said Trankovsky was “a war criminal” who had ordered missile strikes from the Black Sea at civilian targets in. Russia has used warships from its Black Sea fleet, as well as strategic bombers, to conduct missile strikes on targets across Ukraine that have led to hundreds of civilian casualties.
Russian media reported that the explosion tore off Trankovsky’s legs and he died from blood loss. Trankovsky had reportedly been under surveillance for about a week, and the homemade explosive device was detonated remotely. Ukraine has targeted dozens of Russian military officers and Russian-installed officials whom Kyiv has accused of committing war crimes in the country. Little is known about the clandestine Ukrainian resistance cells involved in assassinations and attacks on military infrastructure in Russian-controlled areas.
In October, a high-ranking officer in the GRU military intelligence service who had recently returned from fighting in Ukraine was assassinated outside his house in a village in the Moscow region. The same month, Ukraine claimed responsibility for ain the southern Russian city of Krasnodar and may have been tracked through his profile on the fitness app Strava.
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