Video shows moment car bomb blasts ‘traitor’ in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Dramatic surveillance footage posted Saturday shows the car bomb blast that killed a “traitor” security official in occupied eastern Ukraine earlier this month.

Askyar Laishev, a former Ukrainian security official who joined the Russian-backed Luhansk People’s Republic as head of intelligence in 2014, was killed by Ukraine resistance forces in Donbas on Aug. 11.

Laishev made it out of his car following the powerful blast, but died in hospital a few days later, according to Ukraine’s National Resistance in the region.

⚡️The footage of the explosion of a car with the “head of the service centrу of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” of the temporarily occupied Starobilsk of the Luhansk region, Askyar Laishev, appeared on the Internet. pic.twitter.com/JLOufJ2aRX

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Surveillance footage captures the large car blast. — Surveillance footage captures the massive car blast.

A woman runs for cover immediately after the explosion.

Former Ukrainian security official Askyar Laishev was targeted for helping Russian occupation forces.

Askyar Laishev survived the explosion only to die a few days later.

“We emphasize once again that collaborationism is harmful to your health, so every traitor has vain hopes that retribution will not come to him,” the National Resistance said in a statement.

The newly released surveillance footage shows Laishev’s car blow up in Shevchenko Street, in the city of Staroblisk, in Russian-held Luhansk, which fell under Russian occupation last month.

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