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According to the media outlet Suspilne, the explosive device had been attached to a tree. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported that it was an “assassination attempt” targeting Yevhen Soboliev, the head of a prison in Russian-occupied Kherson who had switched to the Russian side. The Russian military blamed the attack on "Ukrainian partisans."

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