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Office bomb blast kills top separatist prosecutors in Luhansk

Russian and Russian-backed forces have seized control of the entire Luhansk province in the Donbas region [File: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

The prosecutor-general of the Russian-backed self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) in eastern Ukraine and his deputy were killed when a bomb went off at their offices, the head of the separatist administration has said.

“As a result of a terrorist act, Prosecutor-General of the LPR Sergei Gorenko and his deputy Ekaterina Steglenko were killed,” Leonid Pasechnik said in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app on Friday.

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