The Security Service and the National Police have detained three more groups of Russian intelligence agents who set fire to official cars in Dnipropetrovs'k and Zakarpattia regions. UNN reports this with reference to the SBU press service.
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According to the SBU, the occupiers remotely recruited young men who were looking for "easy money" in Telegram channels to commit arsons. At the direction of Russian special services, the defendants first scouted the locations of potential targets, and then committed arsons and recorded them on their own phones.
For example, in Kyiv , two residents of the capital who organized a series of arsons of cars of TCC employees in the Transcarpathian region were detained.
The organizers of the crime included a Kyiv recidivist who had previously served a sentence for drug trafficking. It was he who received the "order" of the Russian Federation to destroy the military transport of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the western region of Ukraine, the SBU said.
Reportedly, together with an accomplice, he recruited several residents from Uzhhorod and Mukachevo to set fire to the cars of Ukrainian defenders.
The next target of the enemy was the private homes of Ukrainian military and their families.
According to the instructions, the perpetrators were to pour flammable mixture on the front door of the apartment of a Ukrainian serviceman from Zakarpattia and set fire to it.
They were detained in hot pursuit.
In Dnipro, three more residents of the frontline region were detained for burning five Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles in the regional center.
In Kryvyi Rih, two enemy henchmen were detained who tried to burn a service minibus that the military had driven to the city after performing combat missions on the front line.
Law enforcers detained all the criminals in "hot pursuit" and served them suspicion notices under two articles (in accordance with the crimes committed):
- part 1, Article 114-1 (obstructing the lawful activities of the AFU and other military formations);
- Art. 194(2) (intentional destruction or damage to property committed by arson, explosion or other generally dangerous means).
The detainees are in custody. They face up to 10 years in prison.