Dmitry Savluchenko was killed in a car bomb blast on Friday, June 24.

Dmitry Savluchenko, a top official in the Russian-installed administration of Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region is dead.

He was killed in an apparent assassination, the deputy head of the administration has told Reuters.

Dmitry Savluchenko, head of the families, youth, and sports department of the Kherson Military-Civilian Administration, was killed in a car bomb blast on Friday, June 24.

Russia’s TASS news agency said there were two burnt-out cars in a courtyard of Kherson, the regional capital where the blast took place, and that the windows of one four-storey house had been shattered.

An adviser to the Ukrainian governor of Kherson told Ukraine’s public news network Suspilne that the assassination was the “successful work of partisans” directed by Ukraine’s armed forces.

Kherson sits just northwest of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula and was occupied during the first week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began in February.