Local employee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs blown up in occupied Svatove

On September 2, an acting deputy head of the juvenile affairs department of the city department of the Russian Interior Ministry, Yevheniy Usenko, was killed in occupied Svatove in the Luhansk region, Trybun reported, referencing local pro-Russian media.

Reportedly, 33-year-old Usenko was appointed deputy head of the department in 2024.

According to preliminary data, unknown persons planted an improvised explosive device in Usenko’s car. Local propaganda blames the murder on “Ukrainian saboteurs”.

Ukrainian services did not comment on the death of the “police captain” in the Luhansk “republic”.

This is not the first assassination attempt in the occupied part of the Luhansk region since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Trybun noted.

In August 2022, collaborator Askiar Layshev was blown up in occupied Starobilsk.

On September 6, 2022, in occupied Luhansk, the “Prosecutor General” of the Luhansk “republic” Serhiy Gorenko and his deputy Kateryna Steglenko were blown up.

On 5 May 2023, an explosion occurred in a barbershop in Luhansk, injuring the “Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” Igor Kornet. After that, he was allegedly sent to Moscow for treatment, and his fate is unknown.

On September 6, 2023, the media reported an assassination attempt on the former head of the Luhansk “republic’s” “customs” Yuriy Afanasyevsky. Russian resources claimed that he was almost unharmed, but he was never shown after the assassination attempt.

On September 20, 2023, some resources reported that the former head of the occupation administration of the city of Kreminna, Yulia Nazarenko, was injured and taken to intensive care. Since then, there has been no mention of her.