A 27-year-old officer of the Russian Investigative Committee was killed in a strike on 30 December 2023 on military targets in Russia.
"Hit in Belgorod thinned the ranks of officers of Russia's racist forces," the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has reported.
According to the intelligence, Russian senior lieutenant Mikhail Konopitsyn was killed.
In November 2023, he was sent to Belgorod to work as part of the military investigation department of the Investigative Committee of Russia. Before that, the occupier fought against Ukraine as a platoon commander of anti-tank missiles.