The SBU Blew Up The Killer Of A Ukrainian Intelligence General
- 7.09.2026, 11:30
The operation was kept secret.
Ukrainian intelligence agencies blew up the car of Oleg Shutov. According to the SBU, he personally planted a bomb under planted a bomb under the car of Major General Maksym Shapoval of Ukraine’s military intelligence.
Oleg Shutov was killed in a bombing on July 27 in occupied Donetsk, according to LB.ua reports, citing sources in the Ukrainian security services.
A homemade explosive device was planted in the Subaru that Shutov drove to the “Dynamo” sports complex in the Leninsky district of Donetsk.
Local pro-Russian media outlets reported at the time that there had been a “nighttime drone attack,” which allegedly injured the head of the wrestling federation.
Shutov did indeed head the judo and sambo association of the so-called “DPR,” and at the same time, he was an employee of the so-called “Center for Special Operations of the DPR Ministry of State Security.” In 2024, this agency was dissolved, and its functions were transferred to the local FSB office.
“It was this very man who, on June 26, 2017, planted an explosive device under the car of Ukrainian intelligence general Maksym Shapoval. Today, for the first time, we are releasing details about the perpetrator of this terrorist act,” said Vasily Gritsak, then-head of the SBU.
Shutov rented an apartment in the building where Shapoval lived and also rented a parking space next to the general’s car. On June 27, 2017, Shapoval’s car exploded in the Solomenskyi district of Kyiv. The general was killed. According to the SBU, an hour after the explosion, Shutov collected his belongings from the rented apartment and left for Russia, and from there—to the Donbas.
Information about Shutov’s elimination was not made public for over a month for security reasons—until the sabotage team returned from the occupied territory.
The Security Service of Ukraine publicly identified Shutov as the killer of Major General Maksym Shapoval for the first time in April 2019.