SBU Office in Donetsk Oblast
The SBU Office in Donetsk Oblast is a regional body of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) responsible for counter-intelligence and operational-investigative work in Donetsk Oblast. It is headed by a chief appointed by the SBU leadership in Kyiv. Since Russia's invasion, the office has been involved in counter-sabotage operations, investigations of collaboration, and special operations in occupied and de-occupied parts of the region.
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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.