The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that it had conducted a successful operation on Russian territory, Ukrinform reported, BTA reported.
According to the information, Ukrainian intelligence, with the support of the "Caucasian Liberation Movement", liquidated three members of the Russian National Guard. The operation was carried out on September 27 near the village of Tambukan in the Stavropol Territory of Russia.
"A lieutenant colonel of the National Guard, who commanded the enemy's special unit "Avangard", was liquidated together with his assistant and his driver. "The group of Russian soldiers was on its way to a training base, but never reached it," the statement said.
Earlier, Ukrainian intelligence in the Primorsky Krai of Russia eliminated a group of Russian soldiers who had treated Ukrainian civilians with particular brutality and executed prisoners of war, Ukrinform notes.