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A huge car bomb blast maimed the Russian commandant of an occupied Ukrainian city on Tuesday, the latest assassination attempt against a pro-Moscow official.

Footage from Berdyansk showed the burning wreckage of a car said to belong to Bardin Artem Igorevich, the military commander appointed by Moscow to oversee the Russian-occupied city and the surrounding region.

The explosion rocked a tree-lined street in the city centre, close to the administration building. Igorevich was reportedly taken to hospital and is in a serious condition.