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Video of a clash between individual units of the State Security Service (SBU) and the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) that occurred in Kyiv was published by Ukrainian media, including Ukrainska Pravda. The one-minute video, shot in the yard of a multi-story building, features four gunshots.
Stefan Kaplunov's lawyer, Taras Borovskyi, who is at the center of the clash, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that SBU special forces began pulling three HUR service members into their car.
“HUR servicemen began holding onto their colleagues so they would not be pulled away. Accordingly, they acted with relatively passive resistance to the SBU special forces, after which the SBU special forces started opening fire, shouting, shooting at the ground, shooting at the legs,” he stated.
The head of the HUR special unit “Timur,” which includes the Russian Volunteer Corps, whose deputy commander is Stefan Kaplunov, stated that Kaplunov was “kidnapped in broad daylight” by SBU employees and held without official charges. According to him, after an agreement to carry out procedural actions in accordance with the law, other SBU employees began detaining HUR members and opened fire on them.
SBU's press service voiced a different version of events — the SBU was conducting investigative actions in a case of a terrorist act organized by Russian security services. According to the SBU, a group of individuals carried out an armed attack on an operative-investigative group, attempted to obstruct investigative actions, and blocked the roadway with cars. The Alpha special unit joined to stop the attack.
The clash between separate units of the HUR and the SBU occurred on the morning of 2 September in the Dniprovsky district. The day before, 1 September, the ROC (Russian Volunteer Corps) deputy commander for combat operations announced that Kaplunov had been abducted by unknown individuals in the yard of a building. In the morning of 2 September, the SBU stated that, together with the HUR, it thwarted an attack against one of the leaders of a Russian opposition political national movement.
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