Our aerial reconnaissance personnel planned an FPV ambush for him.

In the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhia Oblast, the chief of staff of the “Storm.Osetia” battalion, Sergei Melnikov, call sign “Kama”, and his driver were liquidated . This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

“On December 29, 2024, on the Vasilyevka-Tokmak highway, soldiers from the FPV crew of the active operations unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “Kraken” eliminated the chief of staff of the “Storm.Osetia” battalion (an assault unit within the 429th motorized rifle regiment of the Russian Armed Forces) Sergei “kama” Melnikov and his driver,” the statement said.

It is noted that intelligence officers from the Active Operations Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense received operational information that contained details of the route and schedule of movement of the chief of staff of the battalion of Russian terrorist forces in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhia region.

Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance planned an FPV ambush for the leader of the invaders.

“First, drone operators skillfully scared the driver of the UAZ Patriot, in which Melnikov was. The frightened Russian driver abruptly changed the trajectory of movement, the car flew into a ditch, and then military intelligence officers hit the windshield with a kamikaze drone,” the GUR reported. It is noted that both occupiers were destroyed.

GUR destroys Russian military

As UNIAN reported, on Friday, January 3, an explosion occurred in the village of Shuya in the Ivanovo region of Russia, at the epicenter of which was the battery commander of the 112th missile brigade division of the First Tank Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces (military unit 03333) Captain Konstantin Nagayko .

According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, he was on duty in his military unit, and now he is dying. It is noted that Nagayko has multiple shrapnel injuries to virtually all organs, including the brain. He underwent a craniotomy.

He was directly involved in the full-scale war against Ukraine, and was also involved in the Iskander ballistic missile strikes on civilian and military targets in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions. As reported by the GUR, it was Nagayko’s unit that committed a war crime in the village of Groza in the Kupyansk district, when a missile strike was launched on a cafe during a wake on October 5, 2023. Then 59 Ukrainian civilians were killed, including an eight-year-old boy.

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