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Pro-Moscow Ukrainian politician shot in apparent assassination attempt | Ukraine
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A Ukrainian politician once said to have been considered for leader of a Kremlin-controlled puppet government in Ukraine is in a critical condition after he was shot twice in an apparent assassination attempt at a sanatorium in Crimea.
Oleg Tsaryov, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian figure who played a prominent political role in the 2014 war against the Kyiv government, was shot twice by an unknown assailant, his associates have confirmed.
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After the attempt on his life tonight, Oleg lost a lot of blood,” wrote Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed official in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, which is under Moscow’s partial control.
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Shortly before the invasion, a western intelligence official told the Financial Times that Moscow “might position Oleg Tsaryov, and others, in leadership roles as part of this effort.”
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A British Foreign Office report claimed that Moscow planned to install a puppet government, although it named other figures including the former Ukrainian MP Yevhen Murayev.
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The Washington Post reported this month that the CIA had helped fund new departments in Ukraine’s SBU and GUR military intelligence agencies that had carried out assassinations on prominent fighters and politicians.
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