So-called "minister" of occupied Luhansk and two "MPs" killed in Lysychansk bakery attack, Russia claims – photo
The Russian occupation authorities have claimed that Alexei Poteshchenko, Russian-appointed "Minister of Emergency Situations of the 'LPR' ('Luhansk People's Republic', an unrecognised puppet state and terrorist organisation)", has been killed during the attack on a bakery in the town of Lysychansk (Luhansk Oblast), supposedly launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS, citing a representative of the illegitimate occupation government’s "Ministry of Emergency Situations"
Quote: "The LPR's Minister of Emergency Situations Alexei Poteshchenko was among those killed in the attack on a bakery in Lysychansk on Saturday".
Later, Leonid Pasechnik, Russian-appointed "governor" of occupied Luhansk Oblast, confirmed the death of Poteshchenko. Pasechnik claimed that "the Minister of Emergency Situations of the 'Luhansk People's Republic', Colonel Aleksei Poteshchenko, was killed during a brutal attack on a bakery in Lysychansk".
Later, the city "governor" of Lysychansk, Eduard Sakhnenko, reported that during the strike on the bakery, two more local "authority" representatives – Artem Trostianskyi and Ivan Zhushma – lost their lives.
Background: On Saturday, the Russians reported the attack on a bakery in Russian-occupied Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast, supposedly launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which "killed 28 civilians". Ukraine did not comment on the incident.
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