‘People’s Mayor’ of Occupied Horlivka Turns Out to Be Ukrainian Intelligence Officer. He Worked Among Militants for 5 Years

He has now returned to Ukrainian-controlled territory.

Eduard Matyukha, who was considered the ‘people’s mayor’ of occupied Horlivka, turned out to be a Ukrainian intelligence officer. This is reported in a report by TSN.

Matyukha worked in the territory of the so-called ‘DPR’ for five years, and at present he has returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine. This information was confirmed on air by Vadym Skybytskyi, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.

Skybytskyi said that Matyukha provided ‘necessary information about the real situation in the occupied territories’. In Horlivka he held senior posts in the ‘DPR party’. At the same time, the Myrotvorets center was created on his initiative, and he himself was placed there as an active collaborator of the occupation forces.

The intelligence officer found out that the unrecognized ‘DPR’, ‘LPR’, Abkhazia and South Ossetia are controlled by the Russian government through the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Last year Matyukha learned that Russia has a plan to restore the ‘Novorossiya’ project, which envisages forcible annexation of the Kharkiv and Odesa regions.