The Pro-War Russians and Ukrainian Defectors Killed Amid Moscow’s Invasion

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managed to assassinate several Russian officials, including high-ranking generals, pro-war bloggers, occupying officials and others.Here,
law enforcement agency said, adding that detectives and forensic experts were examining the scene of the blast.Police said they launched a
2017 until his death in December 2024.Kirillov and his assistant were killed on Dec
17 2024, when an explosive device attached to a scooter went off as the two men left a building in a residential area in southeastern Moscow
DuginaDaria Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed in August 2022 when an explosive device
person responsible was a Ukrainian woman born in 1979 who had rented an apartment in the same building where Dugina lived
Kyiv neither confirmed nor denied a role in the car bombing.Dugin is an outspoken Russian ultranationalist intellectual who enthusiastically
backs Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as did his daughter
Russian media reports suggested Dugina had borrowed her father's car at the last minute.Farewell ceremony for Daria Dugina.Anton Velikzhanin
/ Moskva 24 / Moskva News AgencyVladlen TatarskyRussian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky died when a statue handed to him as a gift
exploded in a St
Petersburg cafe where he was giving a speech in April 2023.Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was an enthusiastic supporter of the
found guilty of terrorism and other charges over the attack and sentenced to 27 years in a penal colony
It is the longest prison sentence Russia has handed to a woman since the Soviet collapse, according to state media and rights groups.Russian
investigators claimed Trepova acted on the instructions of individuals located in Ukraine
Trepova denied purposefully killing Tatarsky.The Strit-Bar cafe on Universitetskaya Embankment in St
Petersburg, where Vladlen Tatarsky was killed.Alexander Demianchuk / TASSAlexei KovalevKovalev, a former Ukrainian deputy who switched
allegiance to Russian occupying forces in the southern region of Kherson, was shot dead in August 2022.Kovalev was elected a deputy in 2019
in Kherson and joined President Volodymyr Zelensky's party in the Ukrainian parliament.After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine,
Kovalev joined the invading forces and became a senior official.Some media suggested he might have been killed for working with
region died in an assassination attempt in August 2022.Unknown assailants opened fire on Gura near his home in the occupied city of Nova
Kakhovka.Gura was taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and died during a transfer to another hospital in the occupied Crimean
peninsula.Vitaly Gura.Social mediaAFP contributed reporting.