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SBU exposed a Russian agent who was hiding after blowing up the car of an official of the Dnipro city council
The counterintelligence unit of the Security Service detained a Russian agent who had been hiding from justice for more than a year and a half for carrying out a terrorist act in Dnipro.
This concerns a local draft-dodger recruited by the rashists, who at Russia’s request in April 2025 detonated the car of the head of the Left-Bank Administration of the Dnipro city council.
As a result of the explosion of the improvised explosive device, the official later died in hospital from his injuries. After carrying out the enemy’s order, the agent “laid low” in the regional center.
SBU counterintelligence officers established the agent’s whereabouts and detained him.
The investigation found that the man had been recruited by the rashists through an acquaintance who lives in temporarily occupied Luhansk.
Shortly thereafter, the suspect received an operational assignment to eliminate a Ukrainian official who lived in the neighboring building.
To prepare the terrorist attack, the perpetrator set up a hidden dashcam on his apartment balcony to identify the victim’s car and the approximate time he left home.
Later the agent received from Russia the coordinates of a cache from which he retrieved the improvised explosive device.
On the night before the attack, the suspect primed an explosive based on plastid and equipped it with a motion sensor, then secured the bomb under the driver’s seat.
During searches, investigators seized from the detainee the dashcam and two smartphones that he alternately used to contact the Russian intelligence officer.
SBU investigators notified the agent of suspicion under part 3 of article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (a terrorist act that resulted in a person’s death).
He faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The question of choosing a preventive measure of detention for the detainee is being decided.
Comprehensive measures were carried out by Security Service officers in Dnipropetrovsk region under the procedural leadership of the regional prosecutor’s office.
Telegram publication
