The two operatives killed on a raid appeared to be Sevastopol-born former members of the Ukrainian SBU’s special force Alpha, who had been put on the wanted list by Ukrainian law enforcers for desertion, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Baybutlov and Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Rakitsky, journalist Yury Butusov wrote on Facebook.
UNIAN: Traitors of Ukraine from Crimea’s task force killed in Dagestan
Both traitors graduated from the Sevastopol Naval Institute named after Nakhimov, and in March 2014 served in the SBU’s Center for Special Operations in Sevastopol.
