According to Ukrainska Pravda's sources inside Ukraine’s security services, the Military Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Kyrylo Budanov has assassinated Mikhail Shatsky, the deputy general designer and head of the software department at Moscow’s Mars Design Bureau, a part of Rosatom. It is reported that an assassin shot Shatsky dead in the Kuzminki Forest Park near Kotelniki, Moscow Oblast.
The Mars Design Bureau, where Shatsky worked, specializes in the development of onboard automatic control and navigation systems for aircraft and spacecraft. Pro-Ukraine media reports suggest that Shatsky was assassinated because he was a leading designer involved in upgrading Russia’s Kh-59 cruise missiles to the Kh-69 level and developing new drones.
Budanov’s HUR has claimed credit, both directly and indirectly, for various violent actions within Russia, employing Russian emigrés who have joined with Ukraine. Typical is Alexander Nevzorov, a former member of the Russian State Duma, now a Ukrainian citizen. He was one public voice laying the assassination at the feet of Budanov, saying: “Budanov has long arms. It seems that none of those guilty of the genocide of Ukrainians will die a natural death…. Today, the HUR forces in Moscow eliminated a particularly harmful criminal … Mikhail Shatsky.”
