Askyar Laishev, a former Ukrainian security official who joined the Russian-backed Luhansk People’s Republic as its intelligence chief in 2014, was killed by Ukrainian resistance forces in Donbas on August 11. Laishev got out of his car after the powerful blast, but died in hospital a few days later, according to the National Resistance of Ukraine in the region. ⚡️The footage of the car explosion with the “head of the service center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” of the temporarily occupied Starobilsk of the Luhansk region, Askyar Laishev, appeared on the Internet. pic.twitter.com/JLOufJ2aRX — Flash (@Flash43191300) August 26, 2022 Surveillance footage captures massive car explosion. A woman runs for cover immediately after the explosion. Former Ukrainian security official Askyar Laishev was targeted for helping Russian occupation forces. Askyar Laishev survived the explosion only to die a few days later. “We emphasize once again that cooperation is harmful to your health, so every traitor has vain hopes that no retaliation will come to him,” the National Resistance said in a statement. Newly released surveillance footage shows Laishev’s car blowing up on Shevchenko Street in the Russian-controlled city of Staroblisk in Luhansk, which fell into Russian control last month.
