Ukrainian intelligence claims responsibility for Russian colonel’s death near Moscow
- 28 September, 10:51
Ukrainian Intelligence service on Saturday said it killed a Russian colonel who trained specialists in the use of attack drones in Kolomna city in Russia’s Moscow region.
Colonel Alexey Kolomeytsev was the head of the Center for Unmanned Aviation under the Russian Defence Ministry and trained specialists in the use of unmanned drones, including operators and maintenance personnel of the Iranian-made Shaheed kamikaze attack drones. The operation to kill Kolomeytsev was carried out on September 27 by the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate jointly with “local resistance movement”, sources within the Ukrainian intelligence service told local media, without specifying the details of the assassination of the Russian military official. “The resistance movement is building up, enhancing its activities throughout Russia and beyond, as we warned earlier. Every Russian war criminal, everyone involved in aggression against Ukraine is our target, regardless of position, age, gender and location. We will destroy everyone who has the blood of Ukrainians on their hands until the Russian regime stops the war and answers for all its crimes,” sources within the intelligence service warned.
The killing of Colonel Alexey Kolomeytsev came a week after the Ukrainian intelligence services killed Russian Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Kurin in the Kursk region. Ukraine has scaled up attacks on Russian territory in the past few months. In early August, Ukrainian troops staged an incursion into Russia’s border Kursk region, which became the largest-scale attack on the Russian territory since the end of WWII, capturing swathes of land and taking a large number of Russian servicemen as hostages.
