(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Eg Bayev mayor of the central-eastern city of Krementchuk was killed not far from his home the interior ministry said.Two Ukrainian mayors have been targeted in separate attacks authorities said on Saturday with one shot dead while the other’s house was hit by an anti-tank rocket.
Oleg Bayev mayor of the central-eastern city of Krementchuk was killed not far from his home the interior ministry said.
In the other attack the house of Andrii Sadovyi mayor of the western city of Lviv was hit by a rocket fired late on Friday.
No one was in the house at the time of the strike his office said in a statement as local police launched a probe into what they described as a “terrorist attack”.
Sadovyi is a key figure in Ukraine’s pro-European protests that led to the downfall of former president Viktor Yanukovych in February.
“To my knowledge no rocket launchers have been used to fire shots in Lviv” said Sadovyi.
Lviv a city with a population of 750000 close to the Polish border is a nationalist bastion of Ukrainian-speakers.
Both Lviv and Krementchuk have been spared from the violence plaguing eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists are locked in a deadly battle against Ukrainian forces. For more news from Khaleej Times follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/khaleejtimes and on Twitter at khaleejtimes Follow khaleejtimes -->
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