 Seen as an ultra loyalist, sanctioned by the EU, reports say she travelled to Moscow to seek to silence her accusers but was detained when she returned to occupied Ukraine. While Russia has lost Kherson city, it still holds swathes of the Kherson region. A source told the independent Russian news outlet Caution News her enemies 'decided to close her down. She tried to negotiate. She even went to Moscow….in the end she was arrested.' Military correspondent Semyon Pegov confirmed she had been detained over 'economic crimes", believed to relate to the theft of state cash by an organised group. Ekaterina Gubareva, 39, deputy governor of still-annexed territory ( social media /east2west) He continued: "Among other things, Ekaterina was absent from the Kherson region during the [recent] planned evacuation of the civilian population." Law enforcement was now 'carrying out appropriate pr){kind=link}
Since June, Ekaterina Gubareva had been the deputy head of the Russian “civil-military administration” in the annexed Kherson region in Ukraine but is now in detention by authorities
Vladimir Putin’s most senior female official in the occupied Kherson region has been dramatically detained in a £1million alleged sting.
Ekaterina Gubareva, 39, was reported missing today by her husband before confirmation that she had been held by Russian law enforcement.
Since June she has been the deputy head of the Russian “civil-military administration” in the annexed Kherson region but is now in detention.
Previously, the high-profile separatist official was the “foreign minister” of the Russian self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic [DPR].