The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on the count of attempted assassination of Vitaly Gura, deputy head of the Kherson region’s Kakhovka district occupation authority, the agency reports.
According to the Investigative Committee, an explosive device went off near a cafe entrance in Nova Kakhovka in the morning of 13 March. Gura was injured and taken to hospital after the explosion. The agency is unable to clarify who planted the bomb as of yet.
On 13 March, Ukraine’s Atesh partisan movement said it was involved in the attempted assassination of Gura. According to them, no civilians were harmed.
“At 12:10 PM on 13 March 2023, an Atesh agent blew up the deputy head of the so-called ‘Nova Kakhovka military administration’ near the Smachna Kraina cafe located on Victory Avenue, next to his car,” the statement reads.