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On november 9, the deputy head of the Kherson regional administration Kirill Stremousov died in a road traffic incident. The fatal accident took place near the town of Genichesk, where the Kherson regional administration was transferred amid the evacuation of civilians from the city of Kherson.
The head of the Ministry of Health of the Kherson region, official data on what happened to the deputy head of the region would be revealed later.
The real reason behind the incident is yet to be revealed. Presumably, the culprit of the accident was a truck driver who made a dangerous maneuver. The driver of Stremousov lost control, trying to avoid a collision.
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Kirill Stremousov was 45 years old. He has five children left and the sixth will be born soon. The head of the region promised to take care of his relatives.
“Kirill was one of the brightest people who are able to speak and present the truth to people about what is happening in the Kherson region. He worked without a machine gun. He worked with his word and his ability to speak. He has been on the front line, he has been in the rear. He visited both the territory of the region and Kherson itself. Wherever he was, he spoke purely and sincerely about what was happening,” said acting Governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo.
In 2009, Stremousov entered politics and joined the ranks of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. At the same time, he created the local media TavriaNews. In 2021, he became a member of the pro-Russian party Derzhava.
Stremousov headed the Rescue Committee for Peace and Order in the Kherson region after the Russian military entered the city. After the civil-military administration was established in the region, he became deputy head of the region responsible for family, youth, sports and information policies.
He was very active in the social media and was one of those who covered the ongoing military and political developments in the region on a daily basis. He wrote the last message on the morning of November 9 in Telegram, stating that “the situation in the region is under full control of the Russian military.”
On November 9, he was in Kherson and was helping with the evacuation of civilians to the left bank of the Dnieper River. He stressed that the withdrawal of residents of the right-bank part is the main security issue in the Kherson region .
