Investigators pursue three lines of inquiry into how Russia could have learned about ammunition in Vyshneve, Prosecutor General’s Office says
At present, investigators have no reliable information on how Russia could have learned about an ammunition depot in Vyshneve.
Deputy Prosecutor General Andrii Leshchenko said this in a Censor.NET article titled "From negligence to sabotage: What lines of inquiry are being pursued after ammunition detonated at depots, and who will compensate the victims."
Details
Several lines of inquiry are being considered.
"One of them is that the enemy continuously conducts monitoring and reconnaissance using jet-powered Shahed drones. They are now equipped with cameras that take photographs and video footage of the area, and specialised enemy units then analyse this information. That is, analysts can decode these video recordings and determine whether an object is civilian or military and whether it is a potential target. This is how it works when they seek targets not only among military facilities but civilian ones as well," he said.
The second line of inquiry concerns Russian agent activity in Ukraine.
"The third theory is cyber activity, which can likewise yield intelligence-gathering results without a physical presence, solely through access to data transmission systems and databases, from which information about the presence of such a facility in Kyiv region could have been obtained," Leshchenko explained.
Investigators are still pursuing all three lines of inquiry.
Background
- As Censor.NET reported, a massive Russian attack on Vyshneve on 6 July damaged more than 200 sites, including over 100 residential buildings and seven dormitories for railway workers. Nine people were killed, 48 were injured and around 300 families were left without gas supplies.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later said that the facility in Vyshneve, hit during the Russian strike on 6 July, was an ammunition depot belonging to one of Ukroboronprom’s enterprises.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the SSU had identified specific executives of Ukroboronprom enterprises who had located the ammunition depot in Vyshneve.
- On 16 July, it became known that the CEO of a defence company and their deputy had been detained.
- On 17 July, Kuchynskyi, the CEO of the defence enterprise, was remanded in custody.
- Mykola Andriiash, deputy CEO of the defence-sector enterprise, was also remanded in custody.
