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- Ukraine said it killed a Russian-backed lawmaker in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday.
- Mikhail Filiponenko, a deputy in Luhansk, died in a car bomb explosion, per Ukrainian intelligence.
- "Yeah, it was our operation," a Ukrainian official told Politico Europe.
A pro-Russian lawmaker was killed in a coordinated attack carried out by resistance fighters in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military intelligence agency said in a statement.
Mikhail Filiponenko, a member of the Russian-backed parliament in occupied Luhansk, and a former leader of its armed forces, died in a car bomb explosion on Wednesday, per the statement.