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Watch dramatic moment huge car bomb blows up Putin’s notorious prison torturer in daring ‘Ukrainian assassination’
Watch the moment the car explodes in the shocking footage
THIS is the dramatic moment Vladimir Putin's notorious prison torture boss is blown up as his car explodes into a giant fireball.
The daring car bomb blast killed Sergey Yevsyukov - the ex-head of the Olenivka jail where hundreds of Ukrainian PoWs have reportedly been beaten and killed.
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The calculated assassination is believed to have been orchestrated by Ukraine in revenge for years of torment at the hands of Yevsyukov.
Shocking footage captured the moment the 49-year-old's Toyota Land Cruiser was turned into a fireball when it blew up as he sat in the driver's seat.
CCTV shows Yevsyukov already inside the car as his wife begins to climb into the passenger seat.
Moments later a powerful explosion goes off and creates a fierce fireball inside the Toyota.
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Shards of glass can be seen flying across the camera as a dark cloud of smoke billows through the sky.
Yevsyukov is believed to have died instantly in the blast as the bomb was placed on his side of the car.
An alleged bomber was seen on camera some time before the explosion appearing to plant a device before fleeing the scene.
The car was parked up in occupied Donetsk next to a busy road at the time of the blast which is said to have taken place earlier this week.
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His wife was thrown out of the car by the force of the blast after never closing the door completely.
She survived and was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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Russian FSB security agents today confirmed they had arrested a man on suspicion of planting an explosive device in Donetsk.
It is unclear if it is related to the same incident.
Police footage showed heavily armed Russian guards barging open a door to a flat belonging to the suspected assassin.
They then ordered the man to crawl on the floor towards them as they pointed guns directly at him.
The FSB video then features a guard asking the suspect what he was being detained for.
He replied: “For blowing up a man in Donetsk."
Further footage released by the FSB went on to show the man appearing to admit to the Ukrainian secret service ordering the hit.
In what seems to be a confession made under duress and possibly off a script, the suspect claims to feel like he was "being used" by Ukraine.
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He can be heard saying: “I established contact with the Ukrainian security services, then detonated a bomb under a car on 9 December.
“I know that a man died and his wife was injured. I regret what I did. I realise that I was being used.
“Those who work with the Ukrainian special services will be detained and will be deservedly punished.”
Prison boss Yevsyukov has long been accused of allowing the torturing of Ukrainians under his watch.
The Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, also claim he was “involved in the mass abuse of Ukrainian prisoners of war".
They allege he had set up a personal "torture chamber" for the PoWs as well as subjecting them to the threat of a "slow murder".
More than 100 men were tortured by Yevsyukov, the SBU say.
The close Putin ally had also been hit with a serious charge of mass murder by the Ukrainian government after 53 PoWs were killed in an explosion.
Back in 2022, a fatal blast inside the Olenivka torture jail left the dozens of men dead as well as 73 others being wounded.
Ukraine say the explosion was caused by Yevsyukov and his cronies.
The death of Yevsyukov comes weeks after Russian naval commander Captain Valery Trankovsky was also blown up in a car bombing.
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Trankovsky , 47, was killed after his black Chevrolet Cruze drove over a road bump in occupied naval port Sevastopol in Crimea.
He had his legs blasted off in the explosion before dying from “combined injuries and profuse blood loss”.
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