The SSU Counterintelligence has foiled another attempt of russian special services to carry out a terrorist attack against Ukrainian law enforcement in Dnipropetrovsk region.

An enemy agent who tried to blow up a police unit that was supposed to arrive on a fake call has been apprehended.

The Security Service detained the perpetrator when he planted the explosives in an abandoned building and reported to the police line about a person without signs of life.

At the scene, the Service neutralized the improvised explosive device, which the individual had equipped with two combat grenades and a remote-controlled detonator.

If the police arrived at the IED trap, the terrorist planned to remotely blow them up from an ambush.

According to the investigation, the traitor is a 25-year-old unemployed man from Pavlohrad district, recruited by the occupiers through a Telegram channel offering ‘easy money’.

From a pre-arranged cache, he took the components for the bomb. Then, he arrived at the site of the planned terrorist attack, hid the bomb in the garbage and installed a video camera opposite.

The occupiers promised their agent a ‘reward’, which he hoped to receive to his crypto wallet.

However, instead of money from russia, the man received a notice of suspicion from SSU investigators under Articles 15.2, 258.1 of the CCU (completed attempted terrorist act).

The suspect is in custody and faces up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operation was carried out under the procedural supervision of Dnipropetrovsk Region Prosecutor’s Office.