Ukrainian mayor Vitaliy Kim survived a missile assassination attempt at his office building because he overslept the morning of the attack.
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The attack took place on Tuesday morning in Mykolaiv where a Russian missile struck the administrative building. Kim, the city’s mayor and the Head of Administration, avoided the failed assassination attempt since he overslept that morning but officials said rescue workers are still searching for survivors who were inside during the attack.
Kim told the country’s Strategic Communications and Information Team that “several dozen people managed to leave the building” and shared CCTV footage of the Russian cruise missile before the attack as reported by Radar Online.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky also warned officials and troops that Russian forces were kidnapping and killing government leaders throughout the invasion.
“They are kidnapping the mayors of our cities. They killed some of them. We can’t find some of them. We have already found some of them and they are dead.”
As previously reported, Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov was kidnapped by Russian troops and replaced by Galina Danilchenko.