In Russia, military pilot Dmytro Golenkov, who was involved in massive missile attacks on a high-rise building in Dnipro and a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, was killed.
This was reported by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine.
They said that Golenkov was a pilot of the 52nd Heavy Bomber Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces, based at the Shaikovka airfield in the Kaluga region and armed with Tu-22M3 bombers. He was the chief of staff of a Russian aviation squadron.
He was found dead in a village near Bryansk. Golenkov’s body was found with multiple head injuries, probably caused by a hammer.
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine notes that Golenkov was one of those involved in the missile attack on the Amstor shopping centre in Kremenchuk on 27 June 2022. About a thousand people were in the shopping centre at the time. The attack killed 22 people and injured more than 60 others.
In addition, this pilot was responsible for a missile attack on a residential high-rise building in Dnipro on 14 January 2023, which killed 46 Ukrainians, including 6 children.