Ukraine’s Security Service counterintelligence prevented new terrorist attacks in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Uman, and Odessa. As a result of preemptive actions, an agent of the Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU) was detained. He had been preparing bomb caches.
According to available information, the Russians planned to use the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) he made to blow up vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Investigations established that the operation was carried out by a 55-year-old former law enforcement officer from the Odessa region, who had come under the attention of the Russian forcess after posting anti-Ukrainian comments on social media.
After being recruited, the agent received from the GRU coordinates of caches containing materials for three IEDs made from plastic explosives with electric detonators, as well as two anti-personnel mines.
He then equipped these devices with remote-detonation mechanisms and placed them in new hiding spots designated by his GRU handler. Most of these locations were on the outskirts of the aforementioned cities, away from residential areas.
Later, other members of the Russian agent network were supposed to retrieve the explosives from the caches and install them under the vehicles of military personnel.
The SSU counterintelligence discovered the Russian plan in advance, documented the criminal actions of the former law enforcement officer and his GRU handler step by step, and simultaneously seized and neutralized all IEDs and other explosive devices hidden in the caches.
At the final stage of the special operation, SSU officers arrested the agent.
During searches, homemade explosives and components were also seized from the suspect.
The suspect is in custody and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
