They wanted to derail trains en masse: SSU exposes Russian GRU agent group. PHOTOS
The SSU exposed and neutralised a Russian GRU agent group that was supposed to organise a series of railway bombings through wich weapons and equipment were supplied to the frontline.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to the SSU press service.
The SSU CI detained an enemy agent who was preparing to derail the first train.
"To commit the sabotage, the defendant was preparing a homemade brake "shoe" that was supposed to cause the train with ammunition of the Armed Forces to derail. To record this crime on video, the agent placed several cameras around the railway track, disguised as bird nests, which were supposed to record the sabotage in real time," the statement said.
A resident of Rivne, who worked for the 316th Intelligence Centre of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU), located in the occupied Crimea, was recruited by the Russian special services.
The network included two other traitors who are currently hiding in the temporarily occupied peninsula.
"The organiser of the network was 43-year-old Roman Yakymchuk, and the 'liaison' who searched for and set tasks for the agent was former Ukrainian law enforcement officer Oleksandr Ihnatiev, who was fired in 2014 for corruption and drunkenness. To work with the agent in Kyiv, Yakymchuk and Ihnatiev submitted a request to the Russian Federation for USD 100,000. At the same time, they promised only 40% of this amount directly to the agent in the capital of Ukraine. Yakymchuk and Ihnatiev planned to distribute the rest of the money among themselves, concealing this fact from the leadership of the Russian military intelligence," the SSU said.
The enemy agent was detained, and the actions of his handlers were documented.
The SSU served all three men suspicion notices under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- P. 2 Art. 111 (high treason committed under martial law);
- P. 1, Art. 14, Art. 27, p. 4, Art. 113 (preparation and incitement to commit sabotage under martial law);
- P. 1, Art. 263 (illegal handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives).
Yakymchuk and Ihnatiev were served suspicion notices in absentia. The detained agent is in custody. He faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
