The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense reported on 21 October, that Dmitry Golenkov, a Russian military officer implicated in airstrikes on civilian targets in Ukraine, has been found dead in Suponyovo village, Bryansk Oblast, Russia.
According to the intelligence report, Golenkov’s body was discovered with multiple head injuries, likely caused by a hammer. The Russian officer reportedly served as the chief of staff of an aviation squadron in the 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces (military unit 33310), based at Shaykovka airfield in Russia’s Kaluga Oblast, and equipped with Tu-22M3 strategic bombers.
Russia employs its Tu-22 and Tu-95 strategic bombers for large-scale missile strikes deep within Ukrainian territory, targeting civilian infrastructure such as energy facilities, residential areas, and occasionally military sites.
The HUR stated that Golenkov was involved in the missile strike on the Amstor shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, on 27 June 2022. This attack resulted in the deaths of 22 people, with approximately 1,000 civilians present in the mall at the time of the strike.
The intelligence service also implicated Golenkov in the missile attack on a residential building in Dnipro City on 14 January 2023, which claimed the lives of 46 Ukrainian civilians, including six children.
Earlier, on 19 October, the HUR reported the elimination of Russian Major Dmitry Pervukha in temporarily occupied Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. Pervukha, who held the position of “chief of staff for military service and security of military service” in the occupied territory, was killed when his UAZ Patriot vehicle exploded in the city center.
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