Kyiv said it orchestrated the assassination of a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician on Wednesday after an ex-lawmaker who had defected to Russia was shot dead outside Moscow.
Oleg Popov, a former deputy of the Moscow-backed Luhansk Regional Parliament, was killed when his car was blown up in the middle of occupied Luhansk in an attacked allegedly orchestrated by Ukraine's security services.
Explosions rocked the occupied city of Luhansk, with reports suggesting that the explosions were linked to a car bomb targeting a member of the Russian puppet authority in Luhansk, according to a pro-Russian Telegram channel on Dec. 6.