Military Commandant - Colonel

Unit: City of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Region

Cargo ID: #400

Call Sign: "Felix" (Феликс)

Full Name: Artem Igorovich Bardin

Russian Name: Артем Игоревич Бардин

"A car belonging to the commandant of the city was blown up. The car stood next to the city administration. Then there was the shooting," he said on Solovyov LIVE.

It is known that Bardin had his legs blown off in an explosion.

Social networks report that after the explosion in the city they heard gunfire. Three civilian vehicles, in which no one was present, were also damaged by the explosion.
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"Presumably a colonel in the Russian Armed Forces. At the beginning of the 2000s, a senior sergeant with the same name served in the 15th Shavlinsky motorized rifle regiment of the 2nd Taman division . The declarations of the Ministry of Defense also include the officer “Bardin A.I.” - in 2016, he declared more than 11 million rubles of income, in subsequent years - 2.5 million each. The database of the Ukrainian center "Peacemaker" indicates that Colonel Bardin fought in the Donbass in 2014-2017, call sign - "Felix". On September 6, 2022, the car of the military commandant of Berdyansk was blown up"

Russian media and social media launched a campaign to deny he died in the explosion, in March of 2023 they finally admitted he had, in fact, been liquidated.


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The deputy mayor for economics, agricultural sector and finance, appointed by Bardin was Svetlana Vladimirovna Samoilenko [Cargo ID #1178]. She outlived him by a year and a half, but on March 6, 2024, she also died by car bomb.
Svetlana Samoilenko
Deputy Mayor - Collaborator Unit: Berdyansk City Authority, Zaporizhzhia region Cargo ID: #1178 English Name: Svetlana Vladimirovna Samoilenko Russian Name: Самойленко Светлана Владимировна Date of Birth: March 12, 1970 (age: 53 years) Place of Birth: Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine Place of Death: 117 Herzen Street, Kolonia Microdistrict, Berdyansk (via car