Shortly before the Russian withdrawal from Cherson was announced, Kirill Stremouzov, deputy chief of the region's occupation authorities, was killed. A week later, his successor disappears without a trace. Now it is clear: the collaborator was arrested by Russian authorities.
In southern Ukraine, the deputy head of the occupation administration in the Kherson region, Kateryna Hubaryeva, has been arrested by the Russian police. This was announced by the Kremlin-loyal TASS news agency, citing Russian law enforcement agencies. Accordingly, she was arrested for an economic crime. Hubarjewa's predecessor, Kirill Stremousov, had died a week earlier - according to Russian sources, in a traffic accident.
Earlier, Hubareva's husband, Pavlo Hubarev, wrote on Telegram that his wife had disappeared. She was last seen on Tuesday afternoon in Henichesk in front of the government building of the annexed Kherson region, wrote Hubaryev, himself a well-known pro-Russian politician. After the withdrawal of Russian troops from the regional capital of Kherson, the occupiers moved their headquarters to the small town of Henichesk on the Azov Sea. Hubaryev also wrote that he wanted to speak to the region's occupation chief, Volodymyr Saldo, but he could not be reached by phone.
Kateryna Hubaryeva was born in 1983 in Kakhovka in the Kherson region. She studied in Donetsk, where she also met her future husband. In March 2014, Pavlo Hubarev and his comrades-in-arms stormed the building of the regional administration of Donetsk Oblast and hoisted the Russian flag there. He later appointed himself "People's Governor" of the region.
Between April and August 2014, Hubaryeva was the "Minister for Foreign Affairs" of the "Donetsk People's Republic". After that, she was a member of the "parliament" of the self-proclaimed republic for a long time. In the course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the occupation of parts of the Kherson Oblast, Hubaryeva was appointed deputy head of the Russian-installed administration of the region.
On November 9, just hours before the announcement of Russia's withdrawal from parts of the Kherson region, pro-Kremlin news agencies reported the death of Hubareva's predecessor, Kirill Stremouzov. Accordingly, the deputy chief of the occupation authorities had died in a traffic accident. In the local media, he was dubbed the "Gauleiter" of Cherson. Stremouzov was known throughout Ukraine as a pro-Russian agitator even before the war.
