Exclusive translation The British newspaper, the Daily Mail, published a video clip documenting the moment when a former Ukrainian official who joined Russian intelligence was assassinated.
Askyar Lychev served in Ukraine’s Internal Security Service (SBU) before joining the Moscow-backed Luhansk People’s Republic as chief of intelligence in 2014.
But members of the Ukrainian National Resistance in the war-torn Donbass region of eastern Ukraine retaliated by blowing up his car as he drove through the city on August 11.
The huge explosion was followed by the flaming debris continuing to move in the street.
The video footage spread widely among Ukrainian Telegram channels following it was leaked yesterday.
