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SBU and National Police uncovered additional 4 pro-Russian internet agitators in various regions of Ukraine
The Security Service and the National Police detained four more pro-Kremlin internet agitators in various regions of Ukraine. The perpetrators justified the Russian Federation’s armed aggression and stoked interethnic hostility within our state.
🔹 Thus, in Kyiv a church sexton of one of the UOC (MP) temples was exposed; he called for the seizure of the capital of Ukraine.
As the investigation found, the sexton spread enemy propaganda on his own Telegram channel.
Additionally, the suspect actively posted comments in chats on popular social networks supporting Russian armed formations and the Kremlin regime.
Besides him, a blogger was detained in the city who called on Facebook for the physical elimination of members of one of the national minorities and the arson of their places of worship.
On that same internet resource the suspect also threatened servicemembers of the Defense Forces and their families.
🔹 In Zaporizhzhia, SBU counterintelligence exposed an employee of a local defense plant who, in Telegram channels, urged the Russians to carry out a “demonstrative” missile strike on Kyiv and Lviv.
Another suspect is a laboratory technician at a local private clinic. She denied Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhia and spread disinformation about the combat operations of the Defense Forces.
For this she used several fake accounts on Telegram, as well as on the banned social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte.
Linguistic examinations initiated by the Security Service confirmed facts of the suspects’ information-sabotage activities in favor of the Russian Federation.
Mobile phones and computer equipment containing evidence of illegal actions were seized from them during searches.
SBU investigators informed the suspects of suspicion in accordance with the crimes committed under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
▪️ pts. 1, 3 art. 436-2 (justification, recognition as lawful, denial of the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants);
▪️ pt. 2 art. 129 (threat of murder committed on grounds of racial, national, or religious intolerance);
▪️ pt. 1 art. 161 (intentional actions aimed at inciting national enmity and hatred, humiliating national honor and dignity).
The perpetrators face up to 8 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Comprehensive measures were carried out by officers of the Main Directorate of the SBU in Kyiv and Kyiv region, the SBU Directorate in Zaporizhzhia region together with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the Desnianskyi District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv, as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv regional prosecutor’s offices.
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