Throughout a focused operation, Ukraine's army intelligence (HUR) killed Mykhailo Hrytsai, a senior collaborator with Russian occupation authorities in Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a HUR supply advised the Kyiv Unbiased on June 18.
In accordance with the supply, Hrytsai was straight concerned in organizing repressions in opposition to the native Ukrainian inhabitants and establishing torture chambers for prisoners of struggle.
The collaborator was shot lifeless within the metropolis utilizing a silenced PM pistol, the supply mentioned.
Hrytsai served because the Russian-installed deputy mayor liable for infrastructure, housing, utilities, and the power sector. The supply additionally mentioned he facilitated the unlawful seizure of municipal and state property in Berdiansk.
"There are nonetheless loads of such targets — collaborators, accomplices of the enemy — within the occupied territories of Ukraine," the supply mentioned.
"We will certainly get to each one among them and put an finish to their prison actions by any means crucial: with or with no silencer, quietly or loudly, however at all times successfully."
A local of Poltava Oblast, Hrytsai had beforehand participated in Ukrainian political life. He was an assistant to a member of parliament and headed the Berdiansk department of the Socialist Ukraine get together earlier than siding with Russian occupation forces.
Berdiansk, a port metropolis on the Azov Sea, has been below Russian management for the reason that early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022. It stays a vital logistics hub for Russian forces, facilitating the transport of looted Ukrainian grain and different sources.
On Feb. 20, one other focused strike in Berdiansk killed Yevgeny Bogdanov, the deputy head of the Russian-installed administration, in line with Ukrainian army intelligence.
The Kyiv IndependentDaria Shulzhenko