Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (HUR MoD)
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (HUR MoD) is the military intelligence branch of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, subordinate to the Ministry of Defence. It is led by a chief appointed by the President of Ukraine. The agency carries out intelligence-gathering and special operations, including missions in Russian-occupied territory since the full-scale invasion.
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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.