After leaving Ukraine to work as an interrogator, a TRUE police chief was killed in a car bombing.
A car bomb that allegedly targeted Denys Stefankov detonated on Sunday in the heart of Melitopol.
Local media reported that the attack took place in an apartment building’s yard.
Stefankov, a former police officer who allegedly defected to Russia to work as Putin’s police commander, was in charge of interrogating detainees.
Ivan Federov, the mayor of the city, stated on a Telegram post: “An FSB sweep most likely led to the huge explosion that occurred in the yard of a high-rise building in the heart of Melitopol.
“According to preliminary data, during the ‘showdowns’ they wanted to remove one of the police collaborators – the so-called ‘chief of the People’s Police Department of the People’s Militia’.
He continued: “Denys Stefankov is one of the 118 police traitors for whom we were preparing to seize all their immovable and movable property.
“It should be clear to everyone who betrayed Ukraine: the Russians do not need you. Once you are used, you become expendable.”
Federov has not stated if the former police officer perished in the explosion, but Ukrainian media reports that he did.
According to insider sources cited by the news outlet Telegraf, he did not survive the murder attempt.
Stefankov, according to the Russian news agency TASS, is still very much alive and well.
The Department of Internal Affairs posted on Telegram that “false Ukrainian media never sleeps, day or night.
Denis Stefankov is in perfect physical and mental condition as he watches over the law.
The claimed assassination attempt coincides with a recent spike in targeted killings of Russian officials and leaders.
Most recently, blasts last week in Ukraine killed four prominent officials.
Both Lyudmila Boyko, who was planning a fake referendum on joining Russia, and her 46-year-old husband Oleg Boyko, a senior local politician, were assassinated.