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For: EFE Updated 22 May 2022, 9: am EDT
Andréi Shevchik, the self-proclaimed head of the administration of the Ukrainian city of Energodar, controlled by Russian troops since At the end of last February, he was injured this Sunday in an attack with explosives when he was leaving his home, reported the official Russian agency TASS.
In addition to Shevchik, denounced as a collaborator by the Ukrainian authorities, the explosion injured two of his bodyguards.
According to local sources, who did not report the condition of Shevchik and his bodyguards, the explosive device was installed in the electricity distribution box in the portal of the building where you reside.
“He had received numerous threats . The explosion occurred in the portal when the mayor was leaving the building,” a local police source told TASS.
Shevchik, of 54 years old, an engineer by profession, last 28 March proclaimed the creation of the “self-organization council of Energodar”, which he himself headed.
In the city of Energodar, in southern Ukraine, is the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe.
Last week, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Jusnulin visited Energodar and the nuclear plant, where he stated that all jobs will be maintained and that Russia has no problem supplying Ukraine with electricity from that plant if the Government of kyiv “is willing to receive and pay for it”.
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