Collaborator husband and wife in Berdiansk both fatally shot in head – Russian media

IRYNA BALACHUK — SATURDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2022, 12:48

Oleh Boiko, the deputy of the so-called "head of the administration" of the occupied city of Berdiansk has been found murdered in a garage. He had two gunshot wounds to the leg and one to the head, and his wife had a gunshot wound to the head.

Source: Kremlin-aligned RIA Novosti news agency

Quote from the invaders’ representative: "Two bodies have been found at the crime scene, those of a female and a male. The woman’s body with a gunshot wound to the head was found lying on the left side in that direction (near the garage – ed.). The body of a man was also found in the garage. He has two gunshot wounds to the leg and a gunshot wound to the head."

Details: As RIA Novosti reports, six 9-mm shell cartridges were found at the murder scene, probably fired from a Makarov pistol.

Witnesses said that the shots had been muffled, so the invaders assumed that they had been fired from a pistol with a silencer.

It is noted that the "investigation" is considering several versions of the murder, including "a murder ordered by the Kyiv authorities and the activities of a subversive and reconnaissance group."

Background: 

• On 16 September, it became known that Oleh Boiko was killed together with his wife who had chaired the election commission that prepared the so-called "referendum" [a trumped-up voting that would aim to legitimise the merging of the occupied territory with Russia]. In 2020, Boiko ran for the Mayor of Berdiansk from the Opposition Platform – For Life party.
• On 26 August, the so-called "deputy head of the traffic police" died of shrapnel wounds as a result of an explosion in occupied Berdiansk. 
• In September, Artem Bardin, the so-called "commandant" of the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, lost both his legs.when his car had exploded. 

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