Ukrainian ‘traitor’ official who switched sides to the Russians in puppet people’s republic is assassinated by resistance fighters in shocking car bomb attack caught on video
- Ukrainian resistance fighters kill ‘traitor’ security official who defected to Russia
- Askyar Laishev was a member of Ukraine’s SBU before joining people’s republic
- New video shows the moment his car was blown up in Russian-held Staroblisk
- The flaming wreckage moves down the street before the car came to a final stop
Striking surveillance footage shows the dramatic moment a Russian puppet official who switched sides in Ukraine is assassinated by resistance forces.
Askyar Laishev worked for Ukraine’s internal security service (SBU) before joining the Moscow-backed Luhansk People’s Republic as head of intelligence in 2014.
But members of Ukraine’s National Resistance in the war-torn Donbas, eastern Ukraine got revenge by bombing his car as he drove through the city on August 11.
Laishev made his way out of the car after the explosion, the underground fighters said, but died days later in hospital.
Askyar Laishev (left) defected to Russia in 2014. He was slain by resistance fighters this month
The National Resistance stated: ‘We emphasize once again that collaborationism is harmful to your health, so every traitor has vain hopes that retribution will not come to him.’
Newly released CCTV video shows Laishev’s car explode on Shevchenko Street, Staroblisk in Russian-held Luhansk, which fell under Russian control in early July.
The huge explosion is followed by the flaming wreckage continuing to move down the street.
An eyewitness standing yards from the vehicle fell to the ground in the sudden explosion. He was briefly motionless in the wake of the bombing, but appeared to have escaped serious harm
Video from another CCTV camera down the street shows the moment the car exploded
Photos taken in the wake of the bombing show black patches and skid marks on the road.
The footage has been widely shared among Ukrainian Telegram channels after it was leaked yesterday.
Video of the audacious assassination plot came as Putin planned to pull his entire fleet of fighter jets out of Crimea following a flurry of Ukrainian hits on the planes.
A secret document dated August 22 reported that Russia has already moved ten of its most capable fighter planes – six Su-35S and four MiG-31BM jets – out of the territory it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
They will return to airbases in mainland Russia.
Ukraine has not officially taken responsibility for the attacks but multiple sources, including some Ukrainian officials, have suggested their special forces are likely to have been behind the blasts.
The NATO document seen by Insider said that for now the Belbek airfield, close to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet HQ in Sevastopol, still boasts a considerable number of military aircraft, but these are not thought adequate to maintain a consistent level of air support in the region.
Moscow has instead deployed a greater number of surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft weapons systems in an attempt to protect against further strikes, according to the document.
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