Ukraine said Friday that an official in the central city of Dnipro had died in hospital after a blast rocked his car.
The office of the prosecutor general said the apparent attack had taken place at 04:30 GMT and that it was investigating the incident as a terror attack.
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“The official was killed in the attack. His wife was wounded and is currently in hospital,” the general prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
“Law enforcement officers are working at the scene. All circumstances are being established and measures are being taken to identify the persons involved,” the statement added.
The political party Propozytsiya identified the victim as Yuriy Fedko, a member of the Dnipro city council and said he died while undergoing treatment in hospital.
It added that police were investigating a Russian operation and personal rivalry as possible motives.
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Police in the wider Dnipropetrovsk region released images of the blown-out remains of a vehicle in a cordoned-off area near residential blocs.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv has claimed to have targeted military officials and pro-Kremlin public figures in assassination attacks.
Dnipro, an industrial hub with an estimated pre-war population of just under one million people, lies around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the front line with Russian forces.
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