Five Top-Ranking Russian Officials Killed During Meeting

An attack on Russian officials in the occupied Kherson region killed five high-ranking Moscow-backed officers on Tuesday, according to the National Resistance Center of Ukraine.

The attack was reportedly carried out with the help of Ukrainian partisans living in Yuvileyne, a village in southeastern Ukraine that is under Russian control. The National Resistance Center posted on its Telegram channel that the strike was carried out on a building where Russian personnel were holding a meeting.

"Thanks to the information provided by the underground and concerned local residents, an attack was made on the building where the meeting of the occupiers was held in the temporarily occupied village of Yuvileyne, Kherson region," read the post by the center, which was established by Ukraine's Special Operation Forces in March 2022 to unite Ukrainians living in occupied Russia. "As a result of successful actions, five high-ranking officials are known to have died."

Russian-language Telegram channel Astra, which is utilized by Russian journalists who have been censored by the Kremlin, also reported an attack on a two-story building in Yuvileyne on Tuesday, adding that four Russian police officers were killed. Sources who spoke with the channel said that the building is home to the Nova Kakhovka Department of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and that the structure was "destroyed" by shelling.

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