The pro-Russian mayor of a Ukrainian city in the self-declared republic of Luhansk has reportedly been killed after being kidnapped from his home.

Volodymyr Struk, 57, who was mayor of Kreminna since 2020, suffered a “gunshot wound to the heart” after being abducted, according to Ukrainian news agency UNIAN.

On March 1, Struk’s wife told police he’d been kidnapped by men in camouflage.

“There is one less traitor in Ukraine. The mayor of Kremenna in Luhansk region, former deputy of Luhansk parliament was found killed,” Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, wrote in a post on Telegram.

Gerashchenko claimed that Struk was a pro-Russian “Luhansk People’s Republic supporter.” “He had a lot of money, likely given to him by Russia,” the advisor wrote.

Gerashchenko alleged that Struk was deemed a “traitor” after being “judged by the court of the people’s tribunal.”

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“In 2014 he was an active supporter of the LPR. He then left for a part of the Luhansk region free from temporary occupation [and was] twice elected the head of Kreminetskoi OTG,” he continued.

“In the last week, he actively took a Russian position, campaigning OTG deputies to communicate with the Russian Federation and the LNR – gathering deputies on this matter,” Gerashchenko wrote.

“He was shot by unknown patriots as a traitor,” Gerashchenko wrote, “according to war-time law.” 

Luhansk is part of the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine that includes separatist enclaves backed by Russia.

President Vladimir Putin last week formally recognized the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.?