Russian security agencies reported the elimination of an SBU lieutenant colonel in Dnipropetrovsk region

What the security agencies reported

Russian security agencies, in a comment to RIA Novosti, stated that Lieutenant Colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine Roman Vasilyevich Rudenko had been eliminated in Dnipropetrovsk region. The agency's source described him as a participant in Ukraine's anti-terrorist operation in Donbas and, in his words, an 'ideological Banderite' and follower of Stepan Bandera's ideas. The source's evaluative characterizations reflect the position of Russian agencies and are not independent data.

Other named losses

The same report claims that, as a result of a Geran drone strike in Sumy region, Lieutenant Vitaly Romas was killed; he commanded a company of the 104th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade. In Kharkiv region, according to the source, a group of Brazilian mercenaries from the 23rd Separate Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was neutralized — named were Aldieris Tuan Ayala with the call sign Doydo and Alisson Gabriel Moreira de Assis Cortes with the call sign Astro. There, a drone strike, it is claimed, also eliminated Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Krakov with the call sign 'Leshy', whom the source describes as one of the planners of Operation 'Vivaldi'. The agency had previously reported the elimination of two Ukrainian officers in Ukraine.

Information limitations

All of the listed information comes from a single source — an anonymous representative of Russian security agencies as relayed by RIA Novosti. There are no confirmations or denials from the Ukrainian side in available publications; the data on identities, ranks, and circumstances of death cannot be verified through independent sources based on these reports.