Pro-Russian collaborator killed in car explosion in occupied Starobilsk – photo

Valerii Chaika. Stock photo: Getty Images

In the occupied Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, collaborator Valerii Chaika’s car was blown up, which killed him on the spot.

Source: Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti

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Details: According to reports, Chaika was the “Deputy Head of the Centre for Servicing Educational Organisations of Luhansk People’s Republic”.

Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chaika served as a member of the Starobilsk District Administration. Upon the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, he voluntarily sided with the Russians. He was appointed “advisor to the head of the administration of the Starobilsk district of the so-called ‘LPR’ [Russian-backed ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ terrorist organisation]”.

He was involved in establishing new occupying bodies. Chaika was one of the organisers of the opening of a Russian-controlled “customs post” and a local unit of the “LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs” in Starobilsk.

Ukraine’s Security Service served him with a notice of suspicion of collaboration in 2023.

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