INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A minimum of 2 Russian-installed authorities who were stated to have been assassinated in occupied Ukraine over the summer remain in truth
alive, authorities and state media stated Monday.Sergei Tomko and Vitally Gura from southern Ukraines Kherson region, which Russian forces
caught in early March, were reported to be among the 20 Moscow-installed officials eliminated because Russia attacked Ukraine.But Russias
Federal Security Service (FSB)stated it had actually staged Tomko and Guras shooting deaths in July and August as part of a sting operation
to identify and apprehend Ukrainian intelligence agents.Gura serves as the Moscow-installed deputy head of southern Ukraines Kherson area,
while Tomko is deputy police chief in the Kherson area city of Nova Kakhovka
The FSB said direct wrongdoers and their accomplices have been apprehended and a Ukrainian intelligence officer who oversaw the
assassination efforts has actually been identified.Russias state broadcaster Channel Onepublished interviews with Gura and Tomko later
Monday, where they said Russian gatekeeper had approached them with audio recordings of their assassination strategies and offered to stage
their shooting deaths.Gura and Tomko, who were supplied state defense, informed Channel One they both planned to go back to occupied Kherson
and resume their duties.Ukraine has not publicly claimed responsibility for the series of assassinations of pro-Russian authorities in
recorded territories.Russia fabricated Gura and Tomkos assassinations more than four years after Ukrainian unique forcesstaged the shooting
death of Russian investigative reporter Arkady Babchenko in Kyiv to uncover a genuine plot to kill him in 2018.
