Ukraine staged the death of a high-ranked Russian fighting on Kyiv's side to prevent him being killed on Moscow's orders and lure out those involved in the plot, Ukrainian military intelligence announced on Thursday. The GUR military intelligence unit said the ruse even netted the $500,000 Russian reward for the "killing" of Denis Kapustin " also known as Denis Nikitin " leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps and "Timur Special Unit", which had announced on Saturday that Kapustin was killed on the frontline. On Thursday, Kapustin appeared via video link at a briefing with the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov. His assassination, the GUR and Timur unit said, "was ordered by the special services of the aggressor state Russia, which allocated half a million dollars to carry out the crime