Russian-installed ‘deputy head’ of Kherson region is killed in a car crash 

The Russian-installed ‘deputy head’ of Kherson region has been killed in a car crash.

The regional governor’s press service confirmed that Kirill Stremousov, 45, died in the accident. 

Telegram channels supporting Putin’s regime have reported that the crash happened near Henichensk in Kherson, his personal driver told the @wargonzo project.

The 45-year-old was a driving force in organising and supporting the referendum on Kherson’s illegal annexation by Russia.

Recently, he had evacuated civilians from the west bank in Kherson as Ukrainian forces advanced towards the Dnipro River. 

The ‘deputy head’, pictured, said that Kherson could not and would not be handed back to Ukrainians 

Pictured: Stremousov, who had said that Russia was in Kherson forever 

Earlier today, Stremousov, who was appointed two months after the invasion of Ukraine, had typically accused the West of being behind the Ukrainian advance in Kherson in an address on Telegram.

Many English- and Polish-speaking mercenaries among the advancing forces, he alleged, offering no proof.

He told how there was an evacuation from Kherson.

‘Many have left. About 80,000 people were evacuated. We help everyone who wants to leave Kherson. I am now in Kherson myself,’ he said.

The place he was killed is Russian controlled and 130 miles from Kherson city.

Pictured: Stremousov, circled, is reported to have died in a car crash 

On Telegram, Sergei Aksyonov called Kirill a ‘true fighter’ and a ‘Russian patriot’ after his death.

He added: ‘In any situation he remained in touch and considered it his duty to inform the residents of the Kherson region about what was happening. This was the case this morning as well. This is an irreparable loss.’

Ukrainian blogger and politician Anatoly Shariy said: ‘Several sources confirmed the death of Stremousov.

‘If this is true, then I understand what kind of ‘traffic accident’ this was right now when the surrender of Kherson is obvious.’

He appeared to imply that Stremousov had many enemies for supporting the Russian occupation forces which are now pulling back.

He added: ‘And the main thing – if he was killed, and exactly in the way I was told it happened, then it was no Ukrainian Army spies killing him.’

‘Russia is in Kherson forever,’ Stremousov – who had worked as a handyman in the US – had boasted, ahead of losses which mean Putin’s forces are on the retreat.

But the official also had enemies among Russians after blasting Putin’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu for alleged incompetence in defending Kherson region.

‘There is no need to cast a shadow over the entire Russian Defence Ministry at the moment because of some, I am not saying traitors,’ he said last month.

The place he was killed is Russian controlled and 130 miles from Kherson city. Pictured: Stremousov

Shoigu’s ‘untalented military commanders’ have ‘not really bothered to answer for all the processes and holes that now exist’.

He declared: ‘Indeed many say, if I were the defence minister who allowed this state of affairs to happen, as an officer I could have just shot myself.’

He then suggested that the word ‘officer’ was ‘incomprehensible’ to Shoigu.

Stremousov, a Ukrainian pro-Russian politician wanted in Kyiv for treason, lumped Shoigu and his generals together with ‘corrupt marauders and other scum’ in the Russian defence ministry.

Russia’s press service confirmed that Kirill Stremousov, 45, pictured, died

 A Ukrainian legislator reacted to the death of Stremousov, calling him ‘a traitor.’

Oleksiy Goncharenko, vice president of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees, and Displaced Persons tweeted: ‘Kherson collaborator Kirill Stremousov died in an accident. This is a traitor who went over to the side of Russia.

‘He actively opposed the surrender of Kherson and said that Russia is here forever. And then he mysteriously dies.’

Stremousov, pictured, a Ukrainian pro-Russian politician wanted in Kyiv for treason, lumped Shoigu and his generals together with ‘corrupt marauders and other scum’ in the Russian defence ministry

Political analyst Sergey Markov said: ‘Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Kherson region, was killed. It’s all very strange.

‘He kept saying that Kherson could not be handed over and it would not be handed over.

‘He died on the day when they began to actively talk about the surrender of Kherson.

‘He died not from a terrorist attack, but in an accident. Not in Kherson, but in Genichesk.

‘With him in the car was a military commander Kotz, he did not die.

‘All this is very strange.’

Stremousov was wanted in Kyiv for treason.

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