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.

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.

A car exploded on a city street in Sevastopol in occupied Crimea on Nov. 13, killing a military service member behind the wheel

The deceased was a military officer - Valery Trankovsky, 47-year-old captain of the 1st rank in the Russian Black Sea Fleet

Trankovsky had previously served as chief of staff for a missile boat brigade involved in the war in Ukraine

An improvised explosive device (IED) was placed under the driver's side of his car and allegedly detonated remotely

The possibility of sabotage cannot be ruled out

SBU behind car bombing that killed Russian navy officer in Crimea, source says

The car bomb attack that killed Valerii Trankovsky was carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine as a special operation.

Trankovsky was a military criminal who ordered launches of cruise missiles from the Black Sea at civilian targets in Ukraine, including striking Vinnytsia with Kalibrs in July 2022, which killed 29 civilians.