SSU detains group that was to commit terrorist attack in Dnipro

The Security Service of Ukraine detained a group of Russian agents who were supposed to carry out a terrorist attack in Dnipro.

The SSU press service reported on this.

The task of this group, commissioned by the Russian special services, was to blow up a former law enforcement officer.

The Russians reportedly involved three people in the crime: A 52-year-old nurse from the Vinnytsia region, as well as a 26-year-old unemployed Kharkiv resident and his 20-year-old girlfriend. The SSU discovered they were recruited through a Telegram channel and were looking for quick money.

The investigation established that they intended to kill the former law enforcement officer with an improvised explosive device, which the resident of Vinnytsia region was to activate when the man approached his garage.

The woman was detained red-handed as she was preparing to detonate the explosive device using a remote control.

The other two accomplices from Kharkiv were detained immediately afterward. Following the instructions of Russian special services, they arrived in Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where they took the improvised explosive device from a previously prepared cache.

“Then they came to Dnipro and left the explosives in a rented apartment. After that, the two agents returned to Kharkiv to lay low and wait for further instructions from their Russian handler,” the SSU reported.

According to the investigation, before leaving, the couple hid the keys to the apartment in a flower bed near the house for the agent from the Vinnytsia region.

At this location, the woman took the improvised explosive device and installed it near the agreed garage in the yard where the former law enforcement officer lives.

All three detainees were served a notice of suspicion under Part 2 Art. 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (completed attempted terrorist act). The criminals are in custody. They face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Previously, the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police detained accomplices in a terrorist attack in Mykolaiv on February 14 this year, ordered by Russia. The explosion killed three Ukrainian servicemen and injured seven other people of varying severity.