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Bakery shelling in Lysychansk: Russian appointees confirm death of so-called LPR minister Poteleshchenko

5 February, 2024 Monday

15:45

Russia-Ukraine war

The Russian occupation authorities confirmed the death of the so-called Minister of Emergency Situations of the LPR, Colonel Oleksiy Poteleshchenko, as a result of the bakery shelling in Lysychansk on February 3

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The head of the self-proclaimed LPR Leonid Pasichnyk reports.

"Among those killed in the shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk last Saturday is LPR Emergency Situations Minister Oleksiy Poteleshchenko," the terrorist group's leader wrote.

It is known that Poteleschenko was a member of the so-called people's militia, after that, he worked in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR. He was also the head of the Lysychansk State Fire and Rescue Unit.

Two local collaborator deputies, Artem Trostianskyi and Ivan Zhushma, were also killed in the shelling of Lysychansk, the Russian-installed authorities of the city reported.

On February 3, Russians reported the shelling of a bakery in the temporarily occupied Lysychansk, Luhansk region, allegedly by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Russian appointees claim 28 people were killed.