Editing Security Service of Ukraine (section)

==== Assassinations ====
SBU was connected to a number of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel and pro-Kremlin figures. Ukraine said it was behind the killing of a senior Russian naval officer in a car in Crimea. SBU said it was also responsible for the killing of a high-ranking officer in the GRU military intelligence service, who was assassinated outside his house in a village in the Moscow region.

Apart from military figures, Ukraine has targeted prominent Russian pro-war propagandists, including [[Darya Dugina]], daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue [[Aleksandr Dugin]], who was killed in 2023 when a car bomb smashed her [[Toyota Land Cruiser]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-23 |title=Washington Post: Ukraine conducts 'high-value' assassinations inside Russia |url=https://kyivindependent.com/washington-post-sbu-behind-duginas-death-target-was-her-father/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=The Kyiv Independent |language=en}}</ref>

SBU said, it assassinated Mikhail Shatsky a leading Russian missile scientist who worked on upgrading cruise missiles used on the battlefield in Ukraine. His body of was discovered in Kuzminsky forest park, at [[Kotelniki]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Sauer |first=Pjotr |date=2024-12-17 |title=Russian general in charge of chemical weapons unit killed in Moscow scooter blast |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/17/lieutenant-general-igor-kirillov-russian-general-killed-moscow-explosion-chemical-weapons |access-date=2024-12-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In December 2024 the head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division [[Igor Kirillov (officer)|Igor Kirillov]] was killed by an explosive device attached to a scooter outside an apartment building in Moscow. It was the most targeted assassination of a senior military official since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to Guardian.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ukraine says it killed Russian general Igor Kirillov in Moscow |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ek388yxzo |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":3" />

[[File:Standard of Ukrainian Security Service Head.png|thumb|Standard of the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine]]