The Security Service of Ukraine has prevented two terrorist attacks that the russian special services attempted to carry out in Lviv.

As a result of pre-emptive actions, Ukrainian soldiers were saved. The occupiers tried to blow them up remotely using improvised explosive devices.

To lure the servicemen to the site of the plotted terrorist attack, russia used an insidious tactic of ‘inviting them on a date’.

To do this, russian special services created fake female accounts on a popular social network, on behalf of which they got acquainted with potential ‘targets’.

Subsequently, two Defence Forces soldiers separately received ‘invitations’ to meet at locations where explosives had been planted.

SSU cyber teams exposed the enemy’s plots at an early stage, neutralized the IEDs and protected the Ukrainian defenders whom the enemy was planning to blow up.

This summer in Kyiv, the SSU Counterintelligence prevented a similar assassination of a serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine. Then, the russians tried to blow up the soldier with explosives hidden in a scooter.

The ruscists remotely activated the IED when the soldier arrived at the arranged ‘meeting’ place, where the mined motor scooter was located.

A 19-year-old Kyiv resident who planted explosives in the vehicle was detained. The occupiers had recruited him on a Telegram channel offering easy money.

Investigative and operational activities are ongoing to bring all those responsible to justice.

The operations were carried out by the SSU Offices in Kyiv and Kyiv and in Lviv region in cooperation with the National Police under the procedural supervision of Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office.