‘Failed assassination attempt on Alexei Kichigin’, pro-Russian head of Berdyansk region administration

UNCONFIRMED reports suggest, Alexei Kichigin, the pro-Russian head of the administration of the Berdyansk region is uninjured after his car exploded.

Russian media claimed Alexei Kichigin, the pro-Russian head of the administration of the Berdyansk region reportedly survived an attempted assassination on Friday, January 13. As announced by city officials, it is alleged that Ukrainian special operatives planted a car bomb to eliminate him.

Russia’s high command has been notorious in spreading misinformation throughout its invasion of Ukraine, however, including in what it shares online and on social media channels.  In January 2022, the European Union banned Russian-controlled media, while social media giants including Facebook did the same over misinformation concerns.

Vladimir Rogov, the chairman of the ‘We Are Together With Russia’ movement posted a message on his official Telegram channel to explain what had happened, reportedly on Michurin street.

Rogov wrote: “On January 13, 2023, at 19:30, a terrorist act was committed by blowing up in Berdyansk a booby-trapped car of the head of the military-civil administration of Berdyansk district Kichigin Alexey Nikolayevich”.

He continued: “By a lucky coincidence, the official was not injured as he noticed a suspicious object on the bottom of the car just in time The force of the explosion was equal to about 1 kg of TNT explosive”.

“The failed action against the civilian official, who has nothing to do with military affairs, will not affect the work of the Berdyansk district military-civil administration in any way. The terrorist entity UGIL must be destroyed!”, he concluded.

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