Former Ukrainian Politician Oleg Tsarev Shot and in Intensive Care: Updates and Reactions

Sources told Reuters last year that Moscow was grooming Tsarev to be “head of a puppet government in Kyiv”.

Ukrainian politician Oleg Tsarev, a former lawmaker and pro-Russian politician, is in intensive care after being shot, Reuters reported, citing Russian media. No further details about the attack against him have been released at this time.

Russian sources claim the infamous traitor Oleg Tsaryov, a former Ukrainian MP who switched sides in 2014, has been stabbed near his home in Yalta, Crimea.

At the start of the full-scale invasion, some reported that Tsaryov could become the head of the Ukrainian “puppet state”. pic.twitter.com/dnoanvRcfV

— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 27, 2023

“Oleg’s condition is very serious. He is currently in the intensive care unit,” said Vladimir Rogov, an official of the Russian-appointed administration in the Zaporozhye region.

The traitor Oleg Tsaryov was found with stab wounds.
It is reported that ambulances and police converged on his house at night in occupied Crimea. The area around was cordoned off.
Whether Tsaryov is alive is unknown. pic.twitter.com/WZ64bUVExr

— ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) October 27, 2023

Sources told Reuters last year that Moscow was grooming Tsarev to be “head of a puppet government in Kyiv”. He himself rejected this possibility in front of the “Financial Times” and described it as “ridiculous”, because he is the director of a sanatorium in Yalta and is not “important enough”.

“The shot Oleg Tsaryov is an example for every high-ranking collaborator.
All Gauleiters of the Volga republics must understand that they will not be promoted with a transfer to Moscow – they will face a fate like Tsaryov’s, when they become inconvenient or redundant. They will… pic.twitter.com/fg6WAhbjRs

— ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) October 27, 2023

In the past, Tsarev was a member of the Ukrainian parliament and later the speaker of the parliament of Novorossiya, an entity created after Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine broke away in 2014.

2023-10-27 20:57:00
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