Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB)
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is Russia's principal domestic security agency, successor to the Soviet-era KGB. Its remit includes counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, border protection, security within the armed forces, and oversight of compliance with defence-related legislation. The FSB reports directly to the President of Russia and is one of the central instruments of state power in security and internal affairs.
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Ukraine kills Oleh Shutov in Donetsk, suspect in 2017 assassinations of Ukrainian officers
Ukrainian special services eliminated Oleh Shutov in occupied Donetsk on 27 July by detonating an improvised explosive device in his Subaru at the Dynamo sports complex, according to Ukrainian reports. Shutov, an operative of the so-called 'MGB DPR' and president of the 'DPR' judo and sambo association, was publicly named by former SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak in 2019 as the direct perpetrator of the 2017 car-bomb assassination of Ukrainian military intelligence Major General Maksym Shapoval, and was also linked to the 2017 killing of SBU Colonel Oleksandr Kharaberush in Mariupol.