Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) operatives assassinated Russian Black Sea Fleet 41st Missile Boat Brigade Chief of Staff Captain First Rank Valery Trankovsky via car bombing in occupied Sevastopol. Trankovsky reportedly ordered cruise missile strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine in 2022.
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SBU conducted successful special operation planting explosive on Trankovsky's car
Trankovsky ordered Russian cruise missile strikes at civilian objects in Ukraine in 2022
Russian occupation administration will likely further crackdown against pro-Ukrainian individuals in retaliation
The man killed in the attack was a military man - Mikhail Razvozhayev
SBU claimed responsibility for the attack through a Telegram statement
A car bomb attack in Sevastopol killed Valery Trankovsky, chief of staff of the 41st brigade of missile ships and boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, carried out by Ukraine's SBU.
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