Kirill Stremousov The Rise Fall And Death Of The Kherson Based Official In Russia Ukraine
A political fringe on the fringes of society just six months earlier, he was clearly relishing the new attention he was receiving as the public face of Russia’s occupation of Ukraine’s Kherson region. “I’m on a consistent high,” the Moscow-based official told the Guardian in a phone interview in August. “We won. I’m living in a dream. Russia is forever in Kherson.” That “forever” came to an abrupt end on Wednesday when Stremusov, 45, was killed in a car crash as he sped away from Kherson....