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According to SBU materials 15 years in prison was received by an FSB agent who burned the car of a Hero of Ukraine and was preparing a high-profile murder
Based on the evidentiary base of counterintelligence and SBU investigators, 15 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property was imposed on an FSB agent whom the SBU detained in June 2025 in Kyiv. The perpetrator set military vehicles on fire and was preparing a high-profile assassination of a senior Defense Forces official in the capital of Ukraine.
It was established that, on the orders of the rashists, their accomplice burned the pickup of a Hero of Ukraine — the commander of a reconnaissance company of the Khartiya brigade of the National Guard.
After that, the agent received an assignment to prepare the physical liquidation of one of the commanders of the Ukrainian forces, whose personal data the killer was to receive from his curator from the RF.
To prepare the assassination, the perpetrator rented an apartment near a military unit in Kyiv and retrieved a Makarov pistol with several loaded magazines from a cache.
SBU officers detained the killer in the temporary residence at the stage of preparation for the attack.
As the investigation found, the agent came to the rashists’ attention when he began posting anti-Ukrainian comments in Telegram channel chats.
There, an employee of the FSB directorate for Sverdlovsk Oblast contacted the deserter and offered him cooperation in exchange for “evacuation” to the RF.
For covert movement around the city, the traitor got a job in a delivery service, where, posing as a courier, he looked for vehicles to set on fire and then prepared for the assassination.
Based on the materials of the Security Service, the court found the agent guilty under four articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
▪️ para. 2 art. 111 (treason committed under martial law);
▪️ para. 1 art. 114-1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations);
▪️ para. 2 art. 194 (intentional destruction or damage of property by arson);
▪️ para. 1 art. 263 (illegal handling of weapons, ammunition, and explosives).
The investigation was carried out by officers of the SBU Main Directorate in Kyiv and the Kyiv region together with the National Police under the procedural guidance of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office.
