INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the Moscow-installed administration in the occupied Kherson region of Ukraine, was buried in the
Crimean city of Sevastopol on Friday, state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported.Stremousov, 45, died in an apparent car accident near the
staff, Sergei Kiriyenko; the Russian-appointed governors of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, Vladimir Saldo and Yevgeny Balitsky; and
the head of Russian-annexed Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov.Stremousov is the most senior Russian-appointed official in occupied Ukraine to die
since the start of the invasion
Known for being an anti-vaxxer before the war, he enthusiastically welcomed the arrival of Russian forces in Kherson in March."His main task
was to serve the people, serve his country, his city
He walked the path of service honestly to the very end," Kirienko said at the funeral ceremony.Known for his extreme anti-Ukrainian
rhetoric, Stremousov was one of a group of officials that the Kremlin had instructed state-run media outlets to quote less frequently just
actions in Kherson in a Telegram post, condemning the country's "mediocre military leaders."As the deputy head of the pro-Russian Kherson
The referendum, in which joining Russia was backed by some 87% of those who voted, was widely-criticized as a "sham" by the international
