The woman voluntarily cooperated with the invaders and intimidated the residents of Berdyansk, intelligence officials noted.

On March 6, 2024, in temporarily occupied Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, the organizer of Putin’s pseudo-elections, Svetlana Samoilenko, was liquidated.

This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. It is noted that the traitor voluntarily cooperated with the enemy after Berdyansk was occupied in 2022. She also received a position in the Russian occupation administration.

“The so-called military commandant of Berdyansk, Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces Bardin, “appointed” Svetlana Samoilenko to the position of “deputy mayor for economics, agricultural sector and finance.” The woman’s husband and adult son also serve the Russian occupiers,” intelligence officials said.

It is noted that on the fact of Samoilenko’s cooperation with the occupiers, law enforcement agencies of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings under Part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code.

“In preparation for Putin’s pseudo-elections, Svetlana Samoilenko sought to curry favor with Muscovites: she intimidated and terrorized Berdyansk residents, forcing them to participate in an illegal fake vote,” the GUR added.

Elimination of traitors and collaborators: other news

In December 2023, the traitor Ilya Kiva was eliminated in the Moscow region of the Russian Federation. sources reported that he was eliminated using small arms as part of a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine.

Earlier, in temporarily occupied Lugansk, a car in which the so-called “deputy of the People’s Council of the LPR” Oleg Popov was located was blown up. The traitor was eliminated.

In November, Mikhail Filiponenko, a collaborator and ex-head of the department of the so-called “LPR people’s militia”, was blown up in Lugansk. It was noted that this was not the first attempt on his life.