Ukrainian security services assassinated a Russian Black Sea Fleet official in occupied Crimea.
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Ukrainian security services reportedly assassinated a Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) official in occupied Crimea on November 13
A car explosion in Sevastopol killed a captain 1st rank of the Black Sea Fleet using an improvised explosive device near a supermarket on Taras Shevchenko Street
The victim was a military serviceman, 40-45 years old, who lost part of his lower limbs and later died from injuries
Mikhail Razvozhayev did not rule out the possibility of sabotage and said investigative bodies are determining the cause of the explosion
The car bombing was an operation carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)
Trankovsky was chief of staff of the 41st Missile Boat Brigade and a 'war criminal who has ordered cruise missile launches from the Black Sea against civilian sites in Ukraine'
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