Deputy mayor killed in Nikopol
8 February 2024 17:41
In Nikopol, unidentified persons shot a car carrying the deputy mayor in broad daylight. The man died on the spot from his injuries, reports 
with reference to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
According to local media, Deputy Mayor of Nikopol Vitaliy Zhuravlev was killed.
After the shelling, the car caught fire. When the fire was extinguished, the body of a man was found in the car.
The police reported that they had identified the attacker and were looking for him.
Vitaliy Zhuravlev was born on 6 January 1965. He received a law degree from the Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs, was an associate professor and a candidate of law. From 1986 to 2010, he served in the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and held the rank of police colonel. He was actively involved in public activities. He was a deputy of the Nikopol City Council, a member of the Executive Committee of the Nikopol City Council, worked as an advisor from December 2020, and from September 2021 – Deputy Mayor of Nikopol. He was a member of the Batkivshchyna party.
The NV.ua media outlet, citing sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reported that one of the versions of the murder was a conflict with a local criminal group that had been going on since 2017.
A former colleague of the deceased, in his comments to Suspilne, said that Zhuravlev could have been killed for old scores.
“We worked in the same structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at one time, and then we met in the public council. I knew him very well. He was a police officer. We imprisoned a lot of people, he was also the head of the department, so many people are now coming out who were imprisoned back then. This is one of the versions”. And so there can be a lot of them, and only law enforcement agencies can present them,”
– said Zhuravlev’s ex-colleague.
