Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ More details have emerged of the assassination of a high-ranking GRU colonel in Solnechnogorsk near Moscow yesterday. It's not yet known who was behind the killing of 44-year-old Nikita Klenkov, who died after 8 shots were fired into his car. ⬇️

2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that Klenkov "was born in Germany and was a hereditary military man."

3/ "His father, a native of Port Arthur [a former Russian naval base in Manchuria, now Lüshunkou in China], was registered in the same military town near Solnechnogorsk as his son.

4/ "Officially, Klenkov Sr. was listed as a serviceman in the Vystrel Training Centre for Command Personnel (based in the Solnechnogorsk district, now liquidated [in the military reforms of 2009]).

5/ "Nikita himself, before becoming deputy commander of the Special Operations Forces Training Center of the Russian Armed Forces, was listed in military unit 11135.

6/ "This is the 18th Central Research Institute of the General Staff, which develops radio intelligence systems, long-range and satellite communications, and coding. Members of his family were registered at the unit's address in Moscow.

7/ "From here, Nikita Klenkov joined the GRU special forces and simultaneously trained the SOF troops. The high-ranking officer took part in various "business trips", including to the territory of Ukraine.

8/ "As reported by a VChK-OGPU source, the initial theory that the killer was pursuing Nikita Klenkov by car has collapsed. The investigators still managed to identify the Mitsubishi Outlander that eyewitnesses pointed out and trace the driver.

https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1846608444742410744

9/ "The man was interrogated, but the driver remained in the status of a witness, and, apparently, was simply driving by.

10/ "The investigators do not have any other leads yet, only guesses that a real specialist was at work, who was on foot and went into the forest after shooting the victim.

11/ "According to the source, this is the best way to remain unnoticed, since it is quite easy to exit the forest belt and not get into the lenses of CCTV cameras." /end

Source:
t.me/vchkogpu/51788