The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the possible surveillance of Deputy Leontiev before the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The head of the Council of Deputies of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, Vladimir Leontiev, who was killed in an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), could have been followed. This was stated on October 1 by the Ambassador-at-large for crimes of the Kiev regime of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.

"It is possible that he was followed and struck purposefully," RIA Novosti quoted Miroshnik as saying.

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Earlier in the day, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, announced that the head of the Council of Deputies of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, Vladimir Leontiev, who was injured in an attack by an APU drone, died in hospital. He added that Leontiev was known as a staunch patriot, devoted to the interests of Russia and his region.

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