{"id":181395,"date":"2023-11-09T12:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181395"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:29:31","slug":"ukraine-blows-up-putin-ally-with-car-bomb-in-clear-warning-to-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/ukraine-blows-up-putin-ally-with-car-bomb-in-clear-warning-to-traitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine blows up Putin ally with car bomb in clear warning to ‘traitors’"},"content":{"rendered":"

31st Mechanized Brigade reveal fate of Russian tanks in Ukraine<\/h3>\n

Ukraine admitted to blowing up a close ally of Vladimir Putin in the occupied region of Luhansk in retribution for his pro-Moscow stance.<\/p>\n

Mikhail Filiponenko was branded a “war criminal” and an “executioner” running “torture camps” in the region, subjecting prisoners of war and even civilians to “inhumane” treatments.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s military spy agency admitted Filiponenko was targeted in a car bomb attack after photos emerged showing a mangled SUV with a blood-blood soaked backseat.<\/p>\n

In a statement following the explosion, they said: “Filiponenko himself personally brutally tortured people.”<\/p>\n

The agency also said the car bombing would serve as a clear warning to “traitors to Ukraine and collaborators with terrorist Russia in temporarily occupied territories \u2026 will receive just retribution!”<\/p>\n

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Filiponenko was a member of the pro-Moscow Luhansk regional parliament and was no novice to attempts on his life.<\/p>\n

Only days before Putin authorised the launch of Ukraine’s invasion nearly two years ago, the lawmaker survived another blast on February 21, 2022.<\/p>\n

He became involved with separatist militias in Luhansk in 2014, when he became one of the top commanders of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People\u2019s Republic.<\/p>\n

Kyiv designated the group a terrorist organization after separatists seized government buildings and declared the region an independent state following Putin’s annexation of Crimea.<\/p>\n

The head of the internationally unrecognised republic Leonid Pasechnik decried Filiponenko’s death describing it as a “heavy loss”.<\/p>\n

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