The Security Service and the National Police have detained an enemy agent who carried out a double terrorist attack in Dnipro on 23 November.

This involved the detonation of two homemade explosive devices near a railway track in a residential area of the city consisting of private houses.

The first explosion killed a 35-year-old addict, whom the occupiers lured to search for dead drops with drugs and used his explosion as bait for the police.

After the police and a bomb squad arrived at the scene, the russians detonated another IED, seriously injuring one of the police officers.

The law enforcement detained the agent who planted the explosives within 24 hours of the attack, immediately after he arrived in Kyiv, where he was planning to lay low.

According to the investigation, the perpetrator is a 16-year-old displaced person from Sumy who was temporarily residing in the capital.

The individual came to the attention of the russian intelligence services on Telegram channels, where he was looking for easy money.

After recruitment, the ruscists sent their agent to Dnipro, where he settled in a local hotel and then, under the guise of household purchases, acquired components for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices.

Following the instructions of his russian handler, he manufactured two bombs, equipped them with mobile phones for remote detonation, and disguised them as fire extinguishers.

After that, the executor of the attack planted the IEDs near an Ukrzaliznytsia facility, the coordinates of which he had received. He also placed a camera near the planned terrorist attack site so that the russians could track the arrival of victims.

SSU investigators have notified the detainee of suspicion under Article 258.3 of the CCU (a terrorist act that resulted in the death of a person).

The minor faces up to 15 years in prison.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Office in Dnipropetrovsk region jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.