DONETSK, May 7. /TASS/. Units of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate may be linked to the attack on TASS photojournalist Alexander Polegenko.

The Timur’s Special Unit and a task force from the Kabul 9 special unit are suspected, Russia’s law enforcement agencies told TASS.

"The drone operators from Timur’s Special Unit and the Kabul 9 drone group of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate are the lead suspects in connection with the attack on the TASS journalist in the town of Vasilyevka," law enforcement agencies said.

TASS photojournalist Alexander Polegenko was hit by a Ukrainian drone in the town of Vasilyevka, in the Zaporozhye Region, during the daytime on May 6. This happened during the so-called "regime of silence" declared by Vladimir Zelensky.