INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, died near the town of Henichesk, Russian pro-war blogger Semyon Pegov wrote on Telegram."Kirill was one of the
brightest, he was able to speak and deliver to people the truth about what is happening in the Kherson region," the Russian-appointed head
of Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, said in a video posted on his Telegram channel.The most senior Russian-appointed official in occupied Ukraine to
die since the start of the invasion, Stemousov, 45, had been sanctioned by both the U.S
and the European Union.His death comes as Ukrainian forces press forward with an offensive on the Russian-held city of Kherson, from which
Meduza reported earlier Wednesday that Stremousov was one of a group of officials that the Kremlin had ordered should be quoted less
reportedly eating a meal prepared by a new cook
carried out by partisans and the Ukrainian security services, experts have suggested that others could be the result of local political and
economic disputes.A father of five, Stemousov provided regular updates about the military situation in and around Kherson, which was until
In a final Telegram post on Wednesday, Stremousov stated that the Ukrainian army was attacking in "all directions" in the Kherson region.His
publicly recognizable face of the administrations installed by Russia in occupied Ukraine."The demise of Kirill Stremousov is a huge blow to
Russia's occupation regime
enjoyed a degree of notoriety in Kherson even before the war started, and faced a media backlash in 2017 after he filmed himself spinning
his young daughter around his head by her legs
Two years later he was accused of attacking a local newspaper office with tear gas.Stremousov ran unsuccessfully for the post of Kherson
partial occupation of the region the previous month.
