In Kyiv, the SSU and the National Police have prevented a brutal terrorist attack which was planned by the russian military intelligence (‘the GRU’).

As a result of the special operation, two enemy agents were apprehended. They were to make an improvised explosive device and blow it up in a crowded place in the capital of Ukraine.

According to the SSU Counterintelligence, russia’s goal was to cause as many deaths among civilian population of Kyiv as possible and sow panic among citizens.

To carry out the attack, the russian intelligence remotely recruited a 20-year-old woman from Zaporizhzhia, who was looking for easy money on Telegram.

After the recruitment, the asset received detailed instructions from the occupiers on how to make a homemade explosive device.

Following the GRU’s directions, the agent used two mobile phones, to which she was to connect a detonator with plastic explosive. Prior to that, she was to pick up the explosive from a disguised cache. The russians planned to send its geolocation to the girl on the eve of the terrorist attack.

As established by the investigators, the traitor was in contact with a russian GRU officer located in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region.

The woman involved her 26-year-old partner in cooperation with the aggressor. Before committing the terrorist attack, they had to carry out a test task from the russian service: to set fire to several military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Zaporizhzhia.

To prevent the crime, the SSU Counterintelligence detained both agents ‘red-handed’ when they tried to burn an infantry fighting vehicle on duty on the southern front.

At the scene, the SSU seized the tools used for the crime and mobile phones with evidence of sabotage against Ukraine.

SSU investigators served the perpetrators notices of suspicion under Articles 28.2, 111.2 of the CCU (high treason, committed by a group, under martial law).

The suspects are in custody without the right to be released on bail. They face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

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