Russian Officer Involved In 2022 War Crimes Assassinated In Car Bomb: Ukraine

Last Updated:October 30, 2025, 00:34 IST

Ukraine claims responsibility for killing Veniamin Mazzherin, accused of war crimes in Kyiv Oblast, as Russian forces attack a Kherson children’s hospital and enter Pokrovsk.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (IMAGE: AFP)

Ukraine on Wednesday said it has assassinated a Russian officer who has been responsible for war crimes in Kyiv Oblast in 2022.

According to CNN, Veniamin Mazzherin was killed in a car bomb in Russia during the weekend. He was the deputy commander of a Russian military police unit in Kemerovo, southwest Siberia, according to Ukrainian Defense Intelligence.

The intelligence service said that Mazzherin led the Russian Guard special unit that was allegedly involved in “war crimes and genocide against the Ukrainian people" in Kyiv during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

CNN reported that videos issued by the intelligence service showed an unidentified person holding a remote control, then pans to reveal a silver car on a road before the car explodes in a burst of flames.

In the video, the department said it carried out surveillance on Mazzherin in an operation designed to “eliminate the executioner of the Ukrainian people".

In April, Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car explosion outside Moscow.

Previously, a senior Russian general accused of using chemical weapons in Ukraine was killed by a remotely detonated bomb planted in an electric scooter outside an apartment building in Moscow.

On Wednesday, on the front line in southern Ukraine, a children’s hospital in Kherson was attacked by Russian forces, causing a number of injuries, CNN quoted regional authorities as stating.

In the attack, a nine-year-old girl suffered a mine-blast injury and shrapnel wounds to her lower leg, Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of Kherson regional military administration, said in a post on Telegram.

In a post on X, President Volodymyr Zelensky called the shelling a “deliberate Russian attack specifically against children, against medical personnel (and) against basic guarantees of life in the community."

He further said that Russia “could not have been unaware" of what it was striking. “Russia is now the largest terrorist organization in the world, which is not only dragging out its terrorist war but also trying to do everything possible to ensure that no opportunity to end the war succeeds," he said.

The President added: “Terrorists must be dealt with only as they deserve – with strength and just treatment. I thank everyone who helps Ukraine."

Meanwhile, Russian forces have entered the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, according to Ukrainian officials.

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