In Luhansk, a car bombing killed a "deputy of the LPR People's Council" and former "head of the LPR Joint Center on Control and Coordination" Mikhail Filiponenko. This was reported by his "colleague" in the "People's Council of the LPR".

Filiponenko has long been the "head of the LPR people's police department".

On February 21, an attempt was made on him when his car was blown up near the building of the "LPR representative office in the JCCC", and Filiponenko's driver was injured.