Vitalii Zhuravlov, deputy mayor and deputy head of the Nikopol city council, was shot dead in his car near his house in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

An unidentified person opened fire at the car of Vitalii Zhuravlov, the deputy mayor and the deputy head of the Nikopol city council, in the city of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

The incident took place near Zhuravlov's house.

One of the main lines of enquiry is a conflict with a local group that has been going on since 2017.

A deputy mayor of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was shot to death in his car on Feb. 8 by unknown perpetrators, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.

The attack also set the vehicle on fire, which was later extinguished by first responders.

The Ukrainian outlet New Voice said that the victim was Vitalii Zhuravlov, a member of Yuliia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party, who became Nikopol's deputy mayor in September 2021.