12 Kremlin FSB Officers Killed In Ukraine Drone Strike On Donetsk HQ

A Ukrainian drone strike targeting the Kremlin's Donetsk command center for the FSB (formerly KGB) in occupied Donetsk city killed 12 FSB officers and wounded another 15.

This was a particularly noxious FSB unit, charged with "detention and physical elimination of disloyal citizens" as well as sabotage and other operations. Another systematic and strategic strike on a source of Russian oppression. JL

Cyril Barabaltchouk reports in United 24:

Ukrainian Ukrainian drones destroyed a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces command post in occupied Donetsk. The operation took place at 8:01 a.m. when the Ukrainian military launched eight high-precision strikes using FP-2 drones carrying 60 to 100-kilogram warheads. The attack resulted in 27 casualties among the Russian special forces unit. The strike killed 12 Russian FSB officers and wounded another 15. The FSB’s Mobile Action Directorate is a counterintelligence unit tasked with operations in occupied territories across Ukraine, “performing counterintelligence, sabotage, military operations, agent networks, detention of disloyal citizens, physical elimination of opponents, and coordination of pro-Russian militants” 

Ukrainian drones destroyed a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces command post in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Unmanned Systems Forces Robert “Magyar” Brovdi reported on Telegram on April 22.

The operation took place at 8:01 a.m. when the Ukrainian military launched eight high-precision strikes using FP-2 drones carrying 60 to 100-kilogram warheads. 

Brovdi stated that the attack resulted in 27 casualties among the Russian special forces unit. The strike killed 12 Russian FSB officers and wounded another 15.

He also explained that the FSB’s Mobile Action Directorate (UMD) operates as a special counterintelligence unit tasked with executing operations in temporarily occupied territories and across Ukraine.

“The UMD performs counterintelligence tasks, sabotage, military special operations, the creation of agent networks, the search and detention of disloyal citizens, the physical elimination of opponents, and the coordination of pro-Russian militants,” Magyar wrote. He added that within Ukrainian territory, the unit is responsible for recruitment, managing agent networks, and carrying out terrorist acts, sabotage, and arson. 

The strike was developed by the Deep Strike Center of the Unmanned Systems Forces in coordination with specialists from the Azov 1st Corps of the National Guard. The operation itself was executed by the “Ptakhy” (“Birds”) unit using “MiddleStrike” systems.

The operation in Donetsk follows the recent deep strikes by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces using FP-2 drones. Commander Brovdi had previously reported that his units and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) used the same type of drone to hit the Russian Navy frigate Admiral Grigorovich in the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast.

Despite the warship actively firing its onboard air defense missiles at the incoming targets, the Ukrainian drones successfully struck the Kalibr missile-capable vessel.