Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (HUR MoD) is the military intelligence agency of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, subordinate to the Ministry of Defence. It conducts intelligence and counterintelligence activity in the military sphere, including operations outside Ukraine. It is led by a director appointed by the President of Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s intelligence reveals technical details of new Russian Filin cruise missile
Russia has begun using the new Filin cruise missile against Ukraine, although Ukrainian reports disagree on whether this began in 2025 or 2026. Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate published an interactive 3D model, component information and details of the missile’s electronic base on the War&Sanctions portal.
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Ukraine's 'Special Unit Timur' ambushes Russian special forces on Zaporizhzhia axis, taking one prisoner
Operators of Ukraine's military intelligence "Special Unit Timur" carried out a counter-sabotage operation on the Zaporizhzhia axis, ambushing and neutralising two groups from Russia's 10th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade and capturing one servicemember. Ukrainian intelligence said it established the groups' composition and routes through agent work and technical reconnaissance before the ambush. Radio Liberty said it could not independently verify the report.
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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.