Ukrainian official who backed Russians in the Donbas is assassinated

Striking surveillance footage shows the dramatic moment a Russian puppet official who switched sides in Ukraine is assassinated by resistance forces.

Askyar Laishev worked for Ukraine’s internal security service (SBU) before joining the Moscow-backed Luhansk People’s Republic as head of intelligence in 2014.

But members of Ukraine’s National Resistance in the war-torn Donbas, eastern Ukraine got revenge by bombing his car as he drove through the city on August 11.

Laishev made his way out of the car after the explosion, the underground fighters said, but died days later in hospital.