Ukrainian intelligence eliminates Russian developer of X-69 cruise missiles
The Main Intelligence Directorate has eliminated a designer of the Russian Mars Design Bureau (KB), which developed the X-69 cruise missile, in the Moscow region.
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This was reported by LIGA.net, citing its own sources in the Defence Forces.
The source told reporters that during a special DIU operation, Mikhail Shatsky, head of the software department of the Moscow Mars Design Bureau, was eliminated. He was shot dead in the Kuzminsky forest park near the town of Kotelniki, Moscow region.
Mikhail Shatsky. Illustration: LIGA.net
This information is juxtaposed with local media reports of the shooting and killing of a middle-aged man on 11 December in the same area. Shatsky served as deputy general designer, modernising the X-59 aircraft cruise missile and developing the latest X-69.
The source noted that the designer's colleagues considered him the main ideologist of the introduction of artificial intelligence into drones and other Russian aircraft and spacecraft. The X-69 missile was created after the full-scale Russian invasion and was first used to strike Ukrainian cities in October this year.
Earlier, the DIU press service officially announced the successful elimination of Russian pilot Dmitry Golenkov, who was involved in the shelling of civilians in Ukraine. Major Dmitriy Golenkov was a pilot of a Tu-22M3 bomber and launched cruise missiles at civilian targets, including the Amstor shopping centre in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, on 27 June 2022. Golenkov was struck in the head with a hammer, which caused his death.
Source: LIGA.net
