The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), together with the National Police, detained two agents of the Russian Federation, who produced an explosive device for the implementation of a terrorist attack near the building of the Territorial Center of Acquisition (TCC) in Dnipro on December 14, 2024. About it reports the official Telegram-channel of the SBU.
It should be reminded that during the terrorist attack the suicide, recruited by the Russian special services, undermined the explosives near the TCC Administration. As a result, one person was killed, two more police were seriously injured.
Within a few hours after the terrorist attack, law enforcement officers detained the perpetrator of the crime-a 37-year-old resident who operated on the task of Russian special services. Now the couple, which made a homemade explosive device (SVP), has now been detained.
According to the SBU, a 33-year-old man who left the military unit of Ukraine and hid in the Dnieper, together with his 25-year-old wife, they were in view of the Russian special services in the search for "light" earnings on thematic Telegram channels.
After recruiting the spouse received a task from Russian curators:
- Make an explosive device.
- Lay the SVP in a predetermined hiding place.
- Report the transmission of explosives to the performer through the messengers.
Agents even took with them a three -year -old child not to arouse suspicion during their actions.
After the terrorist attack, the couple tried to "confuse tracks" and moved to another rented apartment. However, law enforcement officers found and detained them at a new address.
The attackers have been suspected of the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- A terrorist act committed by a prior conspiracy by a group of persons who led to the death of a person (Part 2, 3, Art. 258 of the Criminal Code).
- Preparation for a crime (Part 1 of Article 14 of the Criminal Code).
Both detainees as well as a terrorist attack are in custody. They are threatened with life imprisonment with the confiscation of property.
