The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have apprehended another 13 accomplices of russia’s federal security service who committed arson attacks in different regions of Ukraine. The main targets were power facilities of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) and military vehicles of the Defense Forces.

In Vinnytsia region, the law enforcement detained two foreign FSB saboteurs who came to Ukraine from a neighbouring European country to carry out arsons.

The enemy agents were carrying out an assignment from their russian handler to destroy relay cabinets on a railway line near Vinnytsia.

One of them was detained while trying to use a flammable mixture to set fire to an energy facility. The other was caught on his way to the site of the planned sabotage.

In Odesa, four arsonists were apprehended. As part of two groups, they destroyed seven relay cabinets of signaling installations. One of the detained is a 34-year-old Odesa resident who involved her 16-year-old son in the sabotage.

The two others are 16-year-old lyceum students who, after committing arson attacks on the railway, made an improvised explosive device to carry out a terrorist attack near the administrative building of a local Territorial Recruitment Center.

The SSU detained the teenagers at the stage of equipping the bomb and thus prevented the explosion near the military object.

In Zaporizhzhia, a local unemployed man was detained for burning down a Defense Forces SUV and then trying to destroy a power substation on a railway line in the southern region.

Two more perpetrators were detained in Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. They are 18-year-old drug addicts who, on the instructions of their FSB handler, set fire to a relay cabinet on Kyiv railway.

Another four arsonists from Kyiv region, detained by the SSU a few weeks ago, were additionally notified of suspicion: their actions are qualified as sabotage committed as part of an organized criminal group under martial law.

Mobile phones and clothes with evidence of the crimes were found during the searches.

The detained individuals have been notified of suspicion under Articles 28.2, 28.3, 113.2 of the CCU (sabotage, committed upon prior conspiracy, by a group and by an organized group under martial law), according to the actions each of them committed.

The suspects face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

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

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