DIU eliminates the developer of Kh-69 cruise missiles

The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine has eliminated a designer of the Russian Mars Design Bureau, which developed the Kh-69 cruise missile, in the Moscow region.

This was reported by LIGA.net, citing its own sources in the Defense Forces.

The source told reporters that Mikhail Shatsky, head of the software department of the Moscow Mars Design Bureau, was killed during a special operation by the DIU.

He was shot dead in the Kuzminsky forest park near the town of Kotelniki, Moscow region.

This information coincides with local media reports of the shooting and murder of a middle-aged man on December 11 in the same area.

Shatsky served as Deputy General Designer, modernizing the Kh-59 cruise missile and developing the latest Kh-69.

The source noted that the designer’s colleagues considered him the main proponent of introducing artificial intelligence into drones, other Russian aircraft, and spacecraft.

The Kh-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 on the territory of Ukraine.

Major Dmytro Golenkov was a pilot of a Tu-22M3 bomber and launched cruise missiles at civilian targets, in particular, the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, on June 27, 2022.

Golenkov was struck in the head with a hammer, resulting in lethal injuries.

In the same month, DIU operatives blew up collaborator and war criminal Andrii Korotkyi in Enerhodar. From the beginning of the occupation, he actively cooperated with the Russian invaders, which led to his appointment as the “head of security” of the occupied ZNPP and soon became the head of the city’s “council of deputies.”