Armed Forces of the Armed Forces on the Aviation of Russians in Chernobayivka in 2022: it became known who helped in this

Eyal Israel, who now serves in the Intelligence Unit of the Corps of the Marine Corps of Ukraine, married to Ukrainian and to a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for 16 years lived peacefully in Kherson, writes The Jerusalem Post. In the 1990s, Eyal Israel was a member of the special unit, had sniper training and participated in counter-terrorist operations in the Gaza sector.

When asked about service in the 1990s, he avoided specifics and simply answered with the curve a smile: "You saw the series" Fauda "(the popular Israeli series about the anti-terrorist activity of special units of the Israel Security Service)? Well, I was engaged in Israel. " In the first days after the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022, on his own initiative, Eyal announced to help Kherson's defense and enrolled in the territorial defense battalion.

However, the city's defense collapsed a week after the start of a full -scale war, the battalion was disbanded, and it returned home. But he contacted the SBU in the unknown territory and offered his skills. Israeli formed a reconnaissance group and de facto became the leader of the anti-Russian underground in 300,000 occupied Kherson-under the auspices of the SBU and with the support of special service officers who kept communication with the city through the front line.

Among the documented SBU's achievements of Eyal and his group were the destruction of Russian propaganda shields throughout Kherson and the distribution of pro -Ukrainian leaflets, the organization (expense of Eyal's own funds) of food supply to the families of Ukrainian officers, as well as the use of refrigerator for the delivery of foods.

Using his fluent in Persian, he identified the Iranian military advisers and the places of tests of drones, as well as Russian officers who watched them by adjusting Ukrainian blows to strike in their positions. In September 2022, Eyal also transferred intelligence on the representative of the Embassy of Iran Masud, who recruited Iranian students to gather information about Ukrainian military facilities, in particular in Odessa.

He revealed the location of Russian headquarters, warehouses and clusters of troops in Kherson, giving them artillery and rocket fire. Dozens of goals, including local collaborators, were accurately affected. The former SBU officer who oversees him later stated that Eyal had provided so much intelligence information about the movement of Russian troops that the Ukrainian forces sometimes lacked ammunition and equipment to respond to all of it.

In the last days before the departure of Russian troops from Kherson, on November 7-8, 2022, Eyal personally destroyed five cars with Russian officers, soldiers and drivers who tried to escape. This was documented by the SBU immediately after the liberation of the city.

And during the large-scale flood caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station on June 6, 2023 by Russian troops, Eyal again was at risk, using his boat to save Ukrainian soldiers and peaceful residents from hostile fire. Eyal said that his appearance and knowledge of languages ​​helped him to move Kherson and avoid suspicion.

"Russian soldiers accepted me as a Caucasus, the Buryat soldiers thought that I was Asian, and when I was stopped by Chechen Cadyrivs, I quoted Surah from the Koran in Arabic and went on," said Eyal Israeli. This is documented in the official report of the SBU staff. On the fourth day of the occupation, Russian troops moved north and west of Kherson, seeking to seize Nikolaev, and then Odessa, a key Black Sea port of Ukraine, before the receding Ukrainian army will be able to regroup.

To support the offensive, Russia concentrated aviation and other military equipment at the Chernobayivka airfield on the outskirts of Kherson. According to the document, "March 7, 2022, Eyal Israel, at the task of the SBU management in the Kherson region, actively participated in the intelligence of enemy military equipment at the airfield near Chernobayivka . . . The data obtained was immediately transferred to the SBU, and on the same day rocket-artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. enemy.

" Then the exact Ukrainian blows to the Chernobayivka airfield were repeated repeatedly. The former SBU employee, who oversees Eyal in 2022, summed up his role in Chernobayivka: "The loss of these 49 helicopters, of course, significantly weakened the offensive potential of the Russians. " Based on the estimated unit of 49 helicopters of $ 20 million, as well as the cost of weapons stored at the airfield, losses can be about one billion of USD.

However, the journalist who took Eyal Israel's interview notes that he did not receive a worthy award for his activities. He has not yet received Ukrainian citizenship because he does not speak Ukrainian. In 2024, a deputy of Parliament from Kherson, Sergei Kozir, appealed to the Ukrainian government with an official request for Eyal's recognition. However, this was not successful. MP Trump said that the fault of "war and bureaucratic process of obtaining citizenship".

"Eyal Israel is a person with a pronounced pro -Ukrainian position. God forbid, that people like Eal, be more," the MP emphasized. In order to formally apply for Ukrainian citizenship, Eyal enrolled in the Ukrainian army. In May 2025, he passed a "young fighter" course on the basis of the Marine Corps.

"I do and launch reconnaissance drones with David stars on the wings under the front line on the front line - the Russians see it and go crazy, unable to understand what it is and where they fly on them," said Eyal Israel. Eyal has developed and tested the high -capacity battery, which tripled the flight duration of Ukrainian drones, allowing them to be in the air for more than three hours instead of one.

Today, Eyal continues to participate in joint combat operations with the Corps of Marines of Ukraine and the SBU. Eyal said that he began to get threats on his phone. They were written in pure Hebrew and came from Israeli, Russian and Ukrainian numbers. The elderly mother of Eyal, who lives in Israel, also attacked: she was called with threats in Russian. "Judging by the texts, the Russians value my merits more than Ukrainians," Eyal joked.

He explained his decision to tell about his role in the war as: "What is the point of hiding something if the Russians already have all the details?" Another reason for his frankness is the death of his friend and commander of the SBU Colonel Ivan Voronich, who was shot dead near his house in Kiev on July 10, 2025. Voronich, the head of the SBU special operations, oversees Eyal's work during the occupation of Kherson. And sent him a voice message shortly before his death.

"If I was in Kiev that day, I would save Ivan," Israeli says. He says that, most likely, he will not return to Israel: "Although I am a little angry in Ukraine, I love her," he said. The only "souvenir" he left as a sign of gratitude from the SBU, except for a certificate, is a dagger donated by Eyala General of the SBU. The blade depicts David's star next to the Ukrainian trident and engraving "I belong to a warrior. Eyal Israel, Kherson's defender".