Ukrainian intelligence claims Russian colonel killed in special op

On September 27, in the city of Kolomna in the Moscow region of the Russian Federation, Colonel of the Russian occupation army Alexei Vladimirovich Kolomeytsev was killed, reported the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) on Saturday.

"51-year-old Kolomeytsev headed the state center 924 (military unit 20924) of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for unmanned aviation, which also trains specialists in the combat use of unmanned aerial vehicles, particularly 'Shaheds'," it was added.

Ukrainian intelligence added that he was "directly involved in the full-scale invasion of Russia and the commission of war crimes in Ukraine."

GUR, in a post on social media, also published a photo of a supposedly dead man whose face was blurred.

"The elimination of Kolomeytsev was the result of a special operation carried out by the local resistance movement against the Kremlin regime in cooperation with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine," reported the Ukrainian portal Focus.

Details of the Russian colonel's death were not provided.

"The resistance movement is increasing its scale, expanding its activities across Russia and beyond. As we warned earlier, our target is every Russian war criminal, all involved in the aggression against Ukraine, regardless of position, age, gender, and location," commented an anonymous informant to the Focus portal.

The independent Belarusian portal Radio Svoboda notes that the reports of the Russian military officer's death cannot be confirmed based on independent sources. "The Russian Ministry of Defense and other departments did not comment on this news, and Russian war bloggers did not write about the alleged death of Kolomeytsev," commented the portal.