The Security Service and the National Police have detained two enemy agents who carried out arson attacks.

As the investigation established, both suspects are local residents who agreed to work for russia for money. However, instead of the promised pay, the arsonists now face the prospect of life imprisonment.

The first agent of russia’s federal security service was exposed in Dnipro. He set fire to an armoured BTS-4 evacuation tractor that was being loaded at an Ukrzaliznytsia station for onward transportation to the front line.

The individual also attempted to destroy a mobile phone base station using a flammable mixture in order to cut off local subscribers from the network.

In Odesa, a 25-year-old repeat offender, who already had a conviction for theft but committed a new crime while on probation, has been charged.

The perpetrator tracked the vehicles of Ukrainian soldiers and then, under the coordination of russian intelligence services, set the vehicles on fire.

It has been established that his next task was to prepare a terrorist attack in the city. To this end, the aggressor state instructed him to make an improvised explosive device with remote activation.

The law enforcement apprehended the agent in hot pursuit near his residence immediately after the first arson attack on a Defence Forces vehicle.

Both enemy accomplices have now been notified of suspicion under the Articles of the CCU:

• 113.2 (sabotage, committed under martial law);
• 114-1.1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the AFU, during a special period);
• 194.2 (intentional destruction or damage to property).

The suspects are in custody without bail and face life imprisonment and confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out by the SSU regional offices in conjunction with the National Police, under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Offices.